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

[Zach Stern]

I'd definitely have to reccomend Xubuntu over damn small linux. The thing is, while DSL is super fast on old machines, all the tools are obscure.

Any gnome or kde or even windows user will get along on Xubuntu very well, as it has a fairly familiar GUI. But with DSL they sacrifice everything for speed/binary size. So instead of firefox, for example, you have dillo.

Browsing the web with dillo is just a pain in the neck.

Stick with Xubuntu, or at least another distro optimized for older machines that has a somewhat reasonable selection of software installed.

Not to mention DSL is still using kernel 2.4.x due to binary size, and that may or may not cause you problems.
Zach Stern
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Kristian Erik Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:42:46 
To:"NYLUG Technical Discussion" <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] Distro Recommendation... for an old,
	cruddy machine.


On Jan 24, 2008 4:12 PM, Steven Lembark <lembark at wrkhors.com> wrote:
> Gentoo is fairly easy to install and allows you
> to be rather specific on what gets loaded. The
> stage-3 install (only one supported at this
> point) takes about 40 minutes (less if you burn
> an install CD and use local media).

Err, old machine might have slow cpu == long compile times :-(

> You might want to look into optimizing the kernel
> for size also if the system has a fairly specific
> use.

I would recommend Xubuntu or Damn Small Linux...just my two cents here...
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
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