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

[Zach Stern]

The only reason choice of distro might be important is the kernel version.
But that's assuming you're not compiling your own.

Either way I highly reccomend Xubuntu. I've got it running on a machine with
a Mobile Athlon XP 2000 (not 2 ghz, 2000 is the model number), and 256 MB of
ram, and its about as blazing fast as a machine of that age could possibly
be.

I think its exactley what you're looking for. (Unless you're looking to run
a server in which case any distro where you strip out all uncessary daemons
will be fine)


On 1/7/08, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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