On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 13:55 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 20:02 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2007/12/31 03:08 (GMT-0500) Ric Moore apparently typed:
>
> > Anyone know offhand if there is a "small linux" distro that also
uses
> > rpms? I've got some PII's and PIII's to install to, and then give
them
> > away to our charity. So, I'd like something that can make use of these
> > old machines and include a CD with each of them.
>
> Why do you think a PII or PIII can't run Fedora acceptably? Any of Fedora,
> Mandriva or OpenSUSE on any CPU of 500-600 MHz or more, FSB of 100 MHz or
> more, and physical RAM of more than 256M should be adequate, depending on
> intended use and choice of Desktop Environment. I have several recent/current
> distros working KDE perfectly adequately on a 9 year old PIII-700 system with
> 512M RAM, and I haven't bothered on any of them to strip unneeded services.
> Faster is certainly better, but don't let that distort your perception of
> what is really required.
>
> The speed of the newest systems has gotten so high that it screws up people's
> perspective on what's really required.
>
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-ArchSpecific.html...
> shows recommended CPU for graphical Fedora 8 is still only 400 MHz, RAM only 256M
Thanks for all the replies!! I have tried Fedora 7 on an eMachine with
512 of ram (that I tossed into it) and it really lags slower than my old
old 486DX2-66 when I ran Caldera on it back when... with 32 megs of
memory.
Well, IMO, you are comparing apples and oranges or WIN-3.0 against
Vista, if you prefer it this way ;)
Fedora runs pretty well the class of machines you describe
(PIII-700/512RAM). It won't be lightning fast, but will still be fairly
usable.
So, I was figuring that with a small enough distro they should
lift up their skirts and haul ass.
I would not expect this to bring you much
further, because all modern
Linux distros are comparable resource demanding.
No, I don't have to have rpm, but I
just prefer it since back when.
Just for grins, I'll re-install Fedora 7 to the eMachine and not install
KDE or Gnome. I'll report back tomorrow what occurred and how she runs
and feels. Ric
Not using a KDE or Gnome-desktop doesn't really make much of a
difference a PIII-700/512 RAM. What makes a real difference is getting
rid (disabling/removing) all unnecessary applications, features etc.
Ralf