On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 13:55 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 20:02 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > On 2007/12/31 03:08 (GMT-0500) Ric Moore apparently typed: > > > > > Anyone know offhand if there is a "small linux" distro that also uses > > > rpms? I've got some PII's and PIII's to install to, and then give them > > > away to our charity. So, I'd like something that can make use of these > > > old machines and include a CD with each of them. > > > > Why do you think a PII or PIII can't run Fedora acceptably? Any of Fedora, > > Mandriva or OpenSUSE on any CPU of 500-600 MHz or more, FSB of 100 MHz or > > more, and physical RAM of more than 256M should be adequate, depending on > > intended use and choice of Desktop Environment. I have several recent/current > > distros working KDE perfectly adequately on a 9 year old PIII-700 system with > > 512M RAM, and I haven't bothered on any of them to strip unneeded services. > > Faster is certainly better, but don't let that distort your perception of > > what is really required. > > > > The speed of the newest systems has gotten so high that it screws up people's > > perspective on what's really required. > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-ArchSpecific.html#sn-ArchSpecific-x86-hw > > shows recommended CPU for graphical Fedora 8 is still only 400 MHz, RAM only 256M > > Thanks for all the replies!! I have tried Fedora 7 on an eMachine with > 512 of ram (that I tossed into it) and it really lags slower than my old > old 486DX2-66 when I ran Caldera on it back when... with 32 megs of > memory. Well, IMO, you are comparing apples and oranges or WIN-3.0 against Vista, if you prefer it this way ;) Fedora runs pretty well the class of machines you describe (PIII-700/512RAM). It won't be lightning fast, but will still be fairly usable. > So, I was figuring that with a small enough distro they should > lift up their skirts and haul ass. I would not expect this to bring you much further, because all modern Linux distros are comparable resource demanding. > No, I don't have to have rpm, but I > just prefer it since back when. > > Just for grins, I'll re-install Fedora 7 to the eMachine and not install > KDE or Gnome. I'll report back tomorrow what occurred and how she runs > and feels. Ric Not using a KDE or Gnome-desktop doesn't really make much of a difference a PIII-700/512 RAM. What makes a real difference is getting rid (disabling/removing) all unnecessary applications, features etc. Ralf
