[ale] A good gui distro for that Compaq laptop

[Geoffrey]

Ronald Chmara wrote:

> I'm looking for ideas for a good GUI distro for a 64MbRAM, 3 Gb hard 
> drive, 166Mhz Compaq laptop.

I've installed SuSE 8.2 on as small a drive as 1 gig.  I've got a laptop 
that's similar to your config, 128mb, p166, 3 gig.  You might be pushing 
the minimum limit on memory for the gui install, but it will still work. 
  I'd suggest not to use kde in such a configuration, as it will take 
forever to boot.  You'd likely have a better experience if you could add 
a bit of memory.  Nice thing about SuSE 8.2 is you can choose a small 
footprint without going through all the individual packages.  It's 
likely to choose a pretty good selection of packaes on it's own, but 
with 3 gig, it's likely to include kde and I wouldn't go that route. 
Gnome will function much better in that configuration.  Then again, you 
really don't need either, many of us got along with just a window 
manager just fine before Gnome and kde showed up.

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