I have a general question regarding linux and slow computers. I have an amd 500 mhz and 192 megs of ram minus 8 for video. I'm running redhat 9. I sometimes have problems running out of memory when doing regular stuff, sometimes it even seems like it has a larger memory footprint than windows 98. But here we have someone who was using linux on 64 megs of ram and reccomending it on 32 megs. X alone takes up about 20 megs of ram for me and gnome probably another 20. add web browser and email and we have about 40 more. are you using X when you're using linux? Am I doing something wrong here? --Original Message-- I have Suse 8.2 (used to be RedHat 7.3) installed on an older NEC Reday 330t laptop (266, 4 gb drive, 64mg ram, 10/100 pcmcia nic, cdrom, touchpad). Both installs took a couple of hours to complete, but have worked very well. I use KDE for the desktop and the KOffice applications (Kword, KSpread and KPresenter). I quickly found that OpenOffice very, very slow to use on the older hardware and removed it from the system. For the database I used MySQL. Slack would also work well on your older hardware. I had Slack 8.1 running on a 200 mhz desktop with 64 megs of ram for school last year. I can't say anything about Debian or Gentoo, I haven't used those yet. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list