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Linux on an old computer

orty

orty

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My parents gave me their old Pentium 100mhz CPU with case and motherboard. Since Windoze has a tendancy to hog resources a bit on a computer that slow, I was thinking of installing Linux on the thing, making it the primary OS. Since this is an older machine (there will be 64 megs of RAM on it once I get going), any tips on what distros I should use, types of setup, window managers, etc..., that would run good on a Pentium 100? I've got the Mandrake 7.2 release on CD here, so would a custom install with that be OK? I'm just worried about what types of software would work and what wouldn't. Any thoughts as to what you'd do with it?

Thanks,
orty
 
Mandrake should work fine, especially if you're new to Linux. As far as Window Managers go I'd stick to something light on a machine like that. FVWM1 would do great speed-wise, or Window Maker (a little more resources but has a better interface). I definately would stay away from KDE or Gnome with a slower machine w/ only 64mb of Ram. Other than that you shouldn't have too much of a problem (I'm guessing. the slowest pc I've ran linux on myself was an IDT Winchip 225mhz w/ 64mb, but it was fine on that). I'd stay away from the really demanding/inefficient apps though like Netscape6/Mozilla and StarOffice.
 
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