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Re: [LUG] Old PCs



Quoting Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm also interested in running Linux on a low spec PC.. 486 laptop /w
> 16Mb RAM is the lowest spec.  A lot of people have said "Linux runs
> happily on low spec PCs" but what I am now coming to realise is they
> meant "Linux runs happily in COMMAND LINE on low spec PCs".
>


oh, were you not refering to command line usage when you first asked your
question?  If you were, I'm not sure what the best is for low spec machines.  I
would expect that they all preform about the same.

> Could anyone suggest the best (smallest) Window Manager to run, say
> Vector or Peanut Linux using XFree? KDE seems a tad overkill and Gnome
> is not a whole heck of a lot better :)

I beleive that blackbox is pretty tight.  I have no idea why someone would want
to run a GUI on such a slow spec machine though.

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