[Gllug] Distro for 64M machine

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 21 May 2004, John Hearns wrote:

> I've been asked by someone to recommend a distro for a machine with
> the following specs:
> 
> Celeron 466 Mhz, 62mb RAM, FAT32 8040mb, Intel® 810e Chipset Graphics
> Driver, SB Audio PCI 128 Playback
> 
> I know there are distros aimed at lower spec machines - I'm just
> not familiar with them. Any good advice?

You stated that this is for a beginner - what does the beginner want to do 
with it? Does he/she want to run X? Large application like OOo? 

These are possible (I have an AMD K6 300MHz laptop with 64M RAM that runs 
these occassionally) but it will be slow, even using a minimal window 
manager - you could even run Gnome or KDE but expect program loading to 
take a while.

Personally I don't think there is a whole lot of difference in which 
distro you choose.

Jason Clifford
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