I still maintain if you want to run a hard working low budget server toss a barebones slackware install on them old boxen, toss it in a closet and forget about it. Otherwise if the GUI thing is what you need Win2k runs fine on them with 128+ mb RAM. Use whats best for the job, provided your job isn't developing KDE. :) -mj Callum Lerwick wrote: >>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. > > > Mainly its RAM usage bloat. KDE is huge. Recent glibc's are far larger > than years past. Open office is huge and has its own entire GUI > toolkit... > > Just found this. Experimental uClibc based debian: > http://people.debian.org/~andersee/ > > At the last SCALUG installfest we discovered to our suprise Abiword ran > pefectly usable on a 486 running a recent debian. It wasn't pretty with > the vga16 driver (didn't have time to mess around with trying to get > native video support...) but it worked. Blackbox window manager. It > helped that this 486 had 32mb RAM which is kind of a lot for a 486. > > apt however was slower than hell. Probably mostly bottlenecked by disk. > Pre-udma IDE, yuck. :P > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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