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From: Steve Ackman on 23 Apr 2010 15:57 In <pan.2010.04.23.18.52.09(a)dasteem.invalid>, on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:52:09 +0000 (UTC), Mike Jones, luck(a)dasteem.invalid wrote: > Responding to Steve Ackman: > > [...] >> My wife had a 200Mhz with 32MB RAM a few years back. >> I put RH 7.1 on it, and it ran everything just fine though I did leave >> Gnome off, and put on a menu system that would only open one app at a >> time directly in X. No Window manager at all. It was greased lightning >> with that config (compared to an AMD K5-75 w/12MB RAM running fvwm2). > Come on! Out with it! How did you do that? > > I gotta play with this now! %) Did I say a FEW years back? ;-) She didn't like remembering commands, so I changed her shell entry in /etc/passwd to point to a bash script menu. Options were displayed, and when she'd hit '1', netscape would launch, '2' and OpenOffice (or it might have been Star Office then) would open, '3' and her favorite game, etc... There were only about a dozen things she wanted to do on the laptop anyway, so it all easily fit on a single screen menu. Command for each menu item was along the lines of xinit `which firefox` or xinit $(which firefox) As soon as she closed firefox, she'd be dropped back into her shell (menu) again. -- ☯☯
From: Mike Jones on 23 Apr 2010 05:38 Responding to jch: > I've got an old laptop with a 500MHz CPU and 128M RAM. What version of > linux would run on such a limited system? Right now I have Windows ME > but would like to replace it with linux just to play around. I don't > want puppy linux which from what I gather resides on a CD. I actually > want to load linux on the HD and run it from there. What would you > receommend? > > Thanks. Latest Slackware, plus lightweight WM and tools. (RTFM 1st!) I recommend and use IceWM window manager and Dillo browser, though there are plenty of other good choices. I'm running the above on a P450, and did have IceWM\Slack_10.2 running fine on an old 64MB-P90 not so long ago. -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs.
From: jch on 23 Apr 2010 08:45 Mike Jones wrote: > Responding to jch: > >> I've got an old laptop with a 500MHz CPU and 128M RAM. What version >> of linux would run on such a limited system? Right now I have >> Windows ME but would like to replace it with linux just to play >> around. I don't want puppy linux which from what I gather resides >> on a CD. I actually want to load linux on the HD and run it from >> there. What would you receommend? >> >> Thanks. > > > Latest Slackware, plus lightweight WM and tools. (RTFM 1st!) > > I recommend and use IceWM window manager and Dillo browser, though > there are plenty of other good choices. > > I'm running the above on a P450, and did have IceWM\Slack_10.2 running > fine on an old 64MB-P90 not so long ago. Thanks much for your first hand account of what may work on my system.
From: Whiskers on 23 Apr 2010 09:59 On 2010-04-23, jch <jch(a)nospam.com> wrote: > I've got an old laptop with a 500MHz CPU and 128M RAM. What version of > linux would run on such a limited system? Go to <http://distrowatch.com/> and click on 'Search' to see which distros meet your requirements. > Right now I have Windows ME but > would like to replace it with linux just to play around. I don't want puppy > linux which from what I gather resides on a CD. I actually want to load > linux on the HD and run it from there. What would you receommend? > > Thanks. Puppy can be installed on the hard disc. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~
From: ray on 23 Apr 2010 11:00
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:24:44 -0400, jch wrote: > I've got an old laptop with a 500MHz CPU and 128M RAM. What version of > linux would run on such a limited system? Right now I have Windows ME > but would like to replace it with linux just to play around. I don't > want puppy linux which from what I gather resides on a CD. I actually > want to load linux on the HD and run it from there. What would you > receommend? > > Thanks. You don't have an 'old laptop' - I have an old laptop - Zenith 8086 with 640K RAM ;) Puppy 'resides' on a CD - but it can easily be installed to the hard disk. Other likely candidates: vector, damn small, Elive. You could even do a very basic Debian install and take a GUI with 'light' requirements like XFCE, Enlightenment or several others. Don't try to run anything with KDE or Gnome - way too 'heavy'. |