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Need distro that requires little memory and slow CPU.

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SAJChurchey:
Most X Windows system requires at least 64MB just to run.  XWindows will more than likely run slow.  That's why most people just say use the command line.  You can try using a differnt Window Manager like WindowMaker on an older distro like RH 7.x or SuSE 7.x.

Calum:

quote:Originally posted by xinix:
I use GNOME and KDE but quite honestly I prefer to stay away from Slack. It's either too hard or I'm too dumb.

I'd rather use a simpler distro that doesn't requiere so much tweaking.

ThnX!
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there is nothing wrong with slack, so what does that leave?

as people have been saying, using the latest kde and gnome on that computer is not going to be very fast. use windowmaker, xfce, fvwm95 or enlightenment i suggest. Slack will run those fine on your computer.

If you really don't want to use slack, i suggest using peanut linux, or perhaps vector linux (although i could not get vector linux to run X with my video card), peanut uses enlightenment by default, it's a 100MB download or so, and takes up 500MB when installed.
No GNOME or KDE libs come with it though so be prepared to groan on about how you can't install anything.

LordWiccara:

quote:Originally posted by Tux:
Try the Slackware based distribution Vector Linux. It has the speed of Slackware but does the configuation bits for you, it uses icewm so should be pretty and lightweight.
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Is VectorLinux 4.3 (i think) any good?

LordWiccara:

quote:Originally posted by ArmTheHomeless:


Is VectorLinux 4.3 (i think) any good?
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Oops, i ment 3.2

and will it run nicely on a P233MMX with 108mb ram?

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