[PLUG] What flavor?

David Fleck dcf at aracnet.com
Thu Jan 30 18:16:02 UTC 2003


On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, The Kerstings wrote:
> I am a complete Linux novice but can find my way around a DOS box pretty
> well.
>
> Can someone suggest a flavor of Linux that will run with GUI on my old
> P75 machine?  I understand that RH 8 wants a 200 MHz machine.....

I ran SuSE 6.3 for many years on a P75 with 32MB ram.  FVWM or AfterStep
were acceptable as windowmanagers; KDE was painfully slow.  Mozilla was
painfully slow, but functional.  StarOffice was glacial.

I've still got the CD's - you can have them if you're interested.


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David Fleck
dcf at aracnet.com





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