[SWLUG] Re: K6 + Carmarthen

[Julian Hall]

The SOHO edition is released already, a friend of mine runs it on his
PC.  It's not a newbie distro by any means, but it is lightweight
compared to others.  If you want a GUI that is ultra lightweight you
could do worse than check out Black Box.  No bells and whistles,
basically a blank screen where you access everything off the right-click
menu, however it's greased lightning running :)

Vector Linux SOHO 3.2 available from
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/vectorlinux/veclinux-soho

Kind regards,

Julian


On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 22:38, Lyn David Thomas wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:47:00 +0000 (GMT)
> Rhys Sage <rhys_sage at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > At the moment I've got the old PC working with the
> > original P166. It seems to work well enough under
> > Windows 98. I did hear tell there was a lightweight
> > GUI interface I could use instead of KDE which would
> > speed Mandrake up a lot. Alternatively, I could run a
> > different Linux distribution. Are there any with a GUI
> > interface that would run well on a P166. I gather
> > Mandrake 9 used to but 9.1 onwards does not.
> 
> I would suggest that Vector Linux would be a good choice, it is intended
> as a lightweight distro intended for old machines.  You can get the
> download version from http://www.vectorlinux.com or the Linux Emporium
> have the disk for a few pounds.... Currently they are working on a SOHO
> edition - intended for slightly more powerful machines, and they are
> working on a new package system for Vector 5....
> 
> It is essentially a Slackware based distribution at present, but with a
> friendly install interface and some extra tools etc.
> 
> I am using it currently....
>