[SWLUG] Hello SWLUG

[Lyn David Thomas]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 23:20:43 +0100
"Steve Anderson" <steve at twindx.com> wrote:

> On 03/08/06, Kris Zani <kriszani at iscavision.com> wrote:
> 
> >  while ubuntu is friendly it is aimed at the same market as windows
> > and as such requires a pretty hefty
> >  amount of power to run well.  so if this old pc is not up to spec
> > then everything could be going
> >  wrong based on that.
> >
> >  Linux for older hardware - while possible is not newbie friendly
> > and the distros for this purpose
> >  are not very nice.
> 
> I'd like to take this opportunity to mention Xubuntu again =)
> http://xubuntu.com/ I've got it running on a 400MHz PII with 160Mb of
> RAM - it's acceptable on that and really nice on a 733MHz box I've
> got.

Well I would plug Vector Linux Soho 5.12 for those machines, even KDE
works fine, plus you have Xfce as well if you need the extra speed.

-- 
Lyn David Thomas