On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, PHPTOm wrote: > A friend of my fiance, let's call her "Mel", needs a computer. I decided to > give Mel an old 460 mhz PIII dell. It has 96 mg ram. whatever the question, needs more RAM. > Mel heard about Linux on MPR or something and is willing to try it out. cool > I loaded SuSe on it and it is soooo slow. Is there a distro out there that > is designed specifically to run on old, slow machines with little ram. Is > it just KDE? Is 450 MHZ not capable? Right now she has an old (even > slower) pII laptop. Is there any way to optimize KDE to run as efficently > as possible? She needs Open Office. try a more minimalist distro, Debian comes to mind as it does have a fairly small footprint. for a WM i recommend usine XFce, very nice and fast. XFce4 is out but it is a tad slow, so stick with 3.8 for now > I would hate to have to load windows 98 on it just for speed reasons. what the fresh install giveth, the aging install taketh away. -- Munir Nassar RedConcepts.NET http://redconcepts.net/ _______________________________________________ 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