[dundee] Linux for low spec PCs

[Lee Hughes]

I'd use gentoo , with a stripped down kernel, and a lightweight window manager.. If you can laptops with lots or ram then you'll do a lot better, you'll find ram gives you best preformance boosts, openoffice likes lots of ram, so does X and later kernels need more ram. You'll need to build a compile farm too, or use gentoo's binary install feature. 128 is going to be pushing it (i.e. firefox + openoffice at the same time!)

so it's ram ram ram okay..

Laters,
Lee

angie at nirvana.me.uk wrote: Hi,
   Just wondering if anyone could recommend a Linux distro. for low  
spec refurbished laptops - a sample spec would be:

IBM Thinkpad - Intel P2 300 128MB 3GB.

The background is we're looking to get refurbished laptops for £100ish  
and set them up for low income families who are doing their ECDL to  
borrow - other than Internet access all we need to run on them is  
OpenOffice.org.
Ideally we'd like to be able to create accounts so they can't delete  
things they shouldn't.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Regards

  - Angie




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