"Leo" <leoanddona@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> I have an old PC and I would like to give Linux a try on it. I make my
> living in the Wintel environment and cannot risk just jumping out of XP
> into a new OS before I am familiar with it.
>
> The PC in question is a Dell Dimension XPS R400
>
> Intel PII 400
> 128 MB RAM
> 10 Gig HD
> D-Link DFE-530-TX
> MS Wheel mouse
> Logitech Access Keyboard
> Crystal Sound (on the motherboard)
>
> What distro would run the best on this configuration? I tried Lindows
> 4.5 which I guess would probably run very well on my AMD 1800 machine
> but is as slow as molasses on the PII.
>
> It would be nice if I could get this machine zipping along and find some
> applications that are similar to what I use everyday (Dreamweaver,
> Photoshop, Outlook, Pinnacle Studio, Acoustica, Sonic Fire Pro, MS Word
> and MS Access).
>
> Looking forward to hearing what I should do.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leo

I had no problem running Mandrake 9.0 on my 233 , 128 ram, 400 MhZ is not
old.......