[Sussex] Distro?

[Tony Austin]

>> Hello  all!
>> I just got may hands on an old Toshiba lap-top (pentium mmx 100 meg).
>> RH8 runs on it verrrrrry slowly, I tried installing Peanut 9 with on
>> success. Have any of you chaps go any ideas as to witch distro I should
>> use? :-\
>>
>
> Well, you could say I'm a bit biased :) but I'd recommend Slackware.
> Mainly because it's a bit more lightweight overall than other distros.
> You can't really go too large with the one CD (assuming you're not wanting
> KDE/Gnome which is on the second CD).
>
> I'd put Gentoo out of the picture for older machines because it'd end up
> taking so long to get going (unless you decide to use the precompiled
> installation maybe...)
>
> Whatever you do, try a lighter window manager if you want one at all. Try
> Xfce.
>
>

IceWM and Fluxbox are also quite lightweight window managers, but I don't
know how well they would run on 100MHz.

It might be a good opportunity to learn all the command line stuff in
depth.  <g>


Regards.

Tony Austin
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