On Friday 20 February 2004 22:05, 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. It's just the memory used by KDE and some larger apps, like Mozilla. Try switching to a lower memory window manager and Firefox. That or just buy the memory, it's cheap. I'm running on a dual PIII-450 with 1GB RAM and it's fine. I had 256MB before that and it did fine, until I started doing a lot of development on it. -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe GPG signature at http://mtu.net/~jpschewe/gpg.sig.html For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 _______________________________________________ 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