On Friday 20 February 2004 10:05 pm, PHPTOm wrote: > Hello all. > > 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. > > Mel heard about Linux on MPR or something and is willing to try it out. > > 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. > > I would hate to have to load windows 98 on it just for speed reasons. > > TOm FWIW I've run SuSE on slower systems with less RAM. KDE 3.x is much more resource intensive than many other options. My personal favorite that I know is on the SuSE CDs is IceWM. Its relatively light weight and if the person is used to a Windows style interface it has that option. If you want to run KDE then throw some more RAM at it and it should work fine. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com _______________________________________________ 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