Re: [ILUG-BOM] Please suggest me a GNU/Linux distribution

On Monday 07 June 2010 08:55 AM, Sanket Shah wrote:

I will write about my experience with older machines, lot of things on web for Foss + old hardware.

I've worked with CENT OS 4.1 on a 900 mhz p3 512 ram machine doing qt/c++/opengl development. Machine was slow for testing but ok enuf for devlopment, had kde 3.5 that worked well. However centos is short on packages by default and you would have to install them once. But it works on lesser hardware.

In general u can try older distros...

In Jan I downloaded the 'latest' CentOS 5.1 for a govt. office and this latest distro had kernel 2.6.18, when 2.6.30/32 was already out. They are way behind even Debian Lenny which has 2.6.26.