[Cialug] Distro Suggestion

[John Roach]

Is Mandriva avail as an ISO?

Thanks,

John Roach
Information Technology
Easter Seals Iowa
(515) 274-1529 Ext. 276

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-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org] On Behalf
Of David Champion
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 3:22 PM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Distro Suggestion


Josh More wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 14:50 -0500, John Roach wrote:
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>>Does anyone know of a good distro with X for lower end systems? I am=20
>>looking at deploying this out for our users, so it will have to run=20
>>open office. I have been working with linspire 5.o and sofar 2=20
>>machines out would take an install.
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> On my low end machines, I run Fedora with XFCE.  It's nice and snappy.
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> You can also look into Damn Small Linux.

How "low end" are you talking about?

I'm running Mandriva 2005 LE (aka Mandrake 10.2) on a P2 366 laptop w/=20
128mb RAM, and KDE, and it works fine. I also have Mandrake 10.1 on a P2

266 desktop with 128mb RAM, and it's useable. Those are both running
KDE.

When they switched to the 2.6.x kernel, it seems like it became a lot=20
nicer to use on slower machines, I believe this is due to the updates in

the virtual memory handling. When I had Mandrake 10.0 w/ a 2.4 kernel on

that laptop, KDE was un-usable, and I had to run XFCE.

I don't run OpenOffice on those very much : I typically only have a=20
couple of xterms, firefox, and maybe gaim running.

-dc

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