[nylug-talk] Distro Recommendation... for an old, cruddy machine.

[David Rosenstrauch]

oscar zero wrote:
> Query:
> 
> What Distro would you savvy Linux Shills drop on a sub-1-GHz, 256MB, 120gig HD?

I don't think the choice of distro is all that important, but rather the 
choice of desktop and daemon software that you run on it.

If this is going to be a desktop machine, then there's several 
lightweight WM's you can use.  (e.g., WindowMaker, IceWM, XFCE, etc.)

If this is going to be a server, then just make sure you're running the 
minimum amount of daemons that you absolutely need.

AFA choice of distro, IMO pretty much any distro would do fine if you 
follow the above advice.  Perhaps you might get a little extra speed 
boost from a distro that optimizes the binaries for 686 machines (such 
as Gentoo or Arch) but I think that'd probably be minimal, and so not 
something critical to focus on.

HTH,

DR