I too am looking for a good desktop which would run smoothly on a Celeron 333 / P-II 220 / AMD K6 433 type PCs with good gui menus & functionality.
I believe CDWriter, Sound, Web camera & Modem are all that a regular PC user at home and office would require.
The older desktops like Twm or simple X would suit your purpose. Try a older version of kde or gnome too it should work but the graphics will not be as great. (My old celeron use to work with around the same config as yours).
Derwyn.
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 9:49 am, Derwyn Dpenha wrote:
I too am looking for a good desktop which would run smoothly on a Celeron 333 / P-II 220 / AMD K6 433 type PCs with good gui menus & functionality.
I believe CDWriter, Sound, Web camera & Modem are all that a regular PC user at home and office would require.
The older desktops like Twm or simple X would suit your purpose. Try a older version of kde or gnome too it should work but the graphics will not be as great. (My old celeron use to work with around the same config as yours).
mandrake10 with kde runs ok on a celeron 400 with 96 mb ram - open office takes some time to load, but once loaded, the speed is acceptable
On Apr 5, 2005 9:49 AM, Derwyn Dpenha derwynd@gmail.com wrote:
I too am looking for a good desktop which would run smoothly on a Celeron 333 / P-II 220 / AMD K6 433 type PCs with good gui menus & functionality.
I believe CDWriter, Sound, Web camera & Modem are all that a regular PC user at home and office would require.
The older desktops like Twm or simple X would suit your purpose. Try a older version of kde or gnome too it should work but the graphics will not be as great. (My old celeron use to work with around the same config as yours).
Derwyn.
If you have the budget, adding more RAM helps the performance of the newer version of Linux distros on "older" machines.
-- Arun Khan
Debain Base (u can use woody for that config, though you might choose sarge.)
{till 64Mb ram } use WindowMaker as ur GUI. use X-CDroast for Cd Cutting.
-- alternately.. if you can cross the 96MB ->128MB point... you can even use KDE and tweak OFF the bells + whistles.
-- my old sys is a celeron 400Mhz + 128Mb ram.. i can even use GNOME 2.6 with full eye - candy (al beit a bit slow).. but a tweaked KDE runs fine. .. oh yeah of course running debian.. most other distros would crawl... unless your are in the mood for something like gentoo :-)
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if its for an Office.. maybe you go a little more ambitious.. run most of the server m/c as a thin client ... (XDCMP) http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/
you will need a fairly powerful server (large ram -- depends on # of users ) & of course a simple re-design of ur data-storage across the network.
Under this method u could get away with as little as 32 Mb in some cases in the client m/cs..
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I too am looking for a good desktop which would run smoothly on a Celeron 333 / P-II 220 / AMD K6 433 type PCs with good gui menus & functionality.
I believe CDWriter, Sound, Web camera & Modem are all that a regular PC user at home and office would require.
Erle
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