RE: [ale] Best Choice for under-powered System

[Holmquist, Thomas W.]

You will probally want to use a light(ish) weight browser aka.
Thunderbird/Emphany/Galeon. And a light weight Window Manager aka. IceWM,
xfce, black/flux/*box, etc. 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Greg [mailto:runman at speedfactory.net] 
Sent: Sun 9/28/2003 7:39 PM 
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts 
Cc: 
Subject: RE: [ale] Best Choice for under-powered System



Check out OS Pueblo.  It is a Linux install that includes xfce ( a nice 
somewhat lite window manager), OpenOffice (based on Java), and Opera. 
Otherwise I would recommend Slackware, Debian, a BSD (in that order). 
FreeBSD has recently had Java ported successfully to it with success. 
However, be warned that Java on anything is a drag somewhat.  Having 
developed Java I have seen it drag down a modern Pentium upon compilation 
and running.  I personally don't care for Java enabled on a browser, but 
that is just me (too much distraction and a security hazard). 

Good Luck, 

Greg 

> -----Original Message----- 
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org
<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org> ]On Behalf Of John 
> M Trostel 
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 5:52 PM 
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts 
> Subject: [ale] Best Choice for under-powered System 
> 
> 
> I've cobbled together a system for my son from an old 100 MHz Pentium 
> (I) wt. 64 MB of RAM.... 4 M of that RAM is used by the on-board SIS 
> video chip.  It's got a whopping 1 GB HDD, a cd drive and a 3.5" 
> floopy.  An old SMC 10BT ethernet card rounds out his $0 cost system. 
> (Actually $5, as I needed a PS2/AT keyboard converter dongle.) 
> 
> Right now I have the system running RH 7.1. Do you realize how many 
> upgrades there are out for the stock 7.1 distro now? ;) 
> 
> He needs a system that will run Netscape/Mozilla/Galeon with Java 
> support.  It barely runs on the system set up now.  (Mozilla and Java). 
> Would I be better off running Debian on this box? (Leaner, meaner, 
> slightly less than glacial...) Or even something like Vector Linux, 
> which is supposedly for just such a situation? The ISO of Vector I 
> burned seems to have trouble... Has anyone else tried Vector or another 
> small distro for old machines that includes X, a nice windowing system, 
> and a java-enabled browser? 
> 
> -- 
> John M Trostel <jtrostel at mindspring.com> 
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