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Installing on slow pc : redhat or mandrake

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I am installing this on a 200Mhz pentium as a familty's second computer. They used to have windows 95 and want their children to have something to mess with that works this time.


Which is perfered?


Mandrake 8.2....or Redhat 7.3???
 
You wont be able to run kde or gnome on a p200(well, you could but it would be EXTREMELY slow), Blackbox(or flux/openbox), Afterstep or Windowmaker would run ok, but you wont be able to run a whole lot of apps(mozilla or netscape would take forever to load, heh)...if you want to use linux on a p200 id reccomend sticking to command line. IMO, Mandrake and Redhat would be kinda bloated for a p200, you should probably install something like slackware, debian, or a bsd.
 
Or Win95 OSR 2.x. If you want Win98, I would go w/ a Win98 lite version. Make sure you've got more than 64MB of memory (128MB preferred). Since it's a setup w/ a P200, it probably doesn't have that much of RAM.
 
I am assuming that the end-users will be using this machine for the following:
word processing/spreadsheets
email/web browsing
listening to music (no other multimedia apps)

RH or Mandrake doesn't matter: except that Mandrake has a 'friendlier' installation (no, I do not want to start another war here...)
. You could try installing Mandrake with a lightweight desktop: Icewm or Blackbox or (maybe) windowmaker. Try not to install some of the heavier programs such as Openoffice (usr Abiword as the wordprocessor). You might want to give Opera a try as the web browser, and so on...(siag is a good spreadsheet)
also, you could spend some time trying to go through the list of applications and decide which ones you want...

 
dang it...



I attempted to install Lycoris, Redhat, and Mandrake to no avail..the I noticed somethin gat boot time:


32MB of RAM!!

yeeesh...


I guess linux is out of the question...with KDE i mean


THey have a 1.5Ghz P4 as their main machine..this one is for the kids to have in their room....I just wanted to have them learn linux the way I never could..BY FORCE_FEEDING IT TO THEM😉


j/k'ing

I just want them to learn new things
 
WHy would all three installs fail...there comes a point in all the installs were the screen goes blank..for a VERY long time...I counted at least 30min before rebooting


Mandrake sort of "fau-pas" 'd at the very end...then all I got was a cmd prompt...KDE would not work...


I thought it was supposed to but just VERY VERY SLOWLY...as it would constantly be swaping space...but alas the HD was silent
 
Mandrake sort of "fau-pas" 'd at the very end...then all I got was a cmd prompt...KDE would not work...
Click to expand...

type startx at the command prompt after logging on...KDE should start if the installation went *almost* okay
 
I installed lycoris because it most resembles windowsXP...


and let me say...


it runs well..it sort of runs...heh



It is now on a PII 233 (the p200 and mobo went up in smoke literally) with 64MB of RAM

THe important thing is that things do work...


I installed open office, and besides the 5minutes it takes to load, performance isn't horrid...
 
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