Chaps,

does from your experience would slackware 12.0 with Xfce (?spelling) be a
reasonable runner on a K6 233 with 128MB ram? Suspect Openoffice would be
a bit too heavy for this machine. Not sure about Koffice, suspect Abiword
may be a go-er. Of course I could install an older Slack - but the word
processing side has come on leaps and bounds in recent years.

Did look at Damn-Small-Linux but didn't like the look of its windowmanager.
I beleive Windowmaker may have a small footprint but I suspect that might
be a bit harder to get on with for my father - the intended user.

Either that or a 286 with WordPerfect 5.1 - but that would be great until
someone wanted to print and I've thrown out all my old IDE network cards!

BTW - just about to put the keyboard (16 years old) onto this machine as the
old keyboard has lettering and a nice feel whereas this modern cheap one
(most expensive wired keyboard from the supplier at a fiver) has half the
letters worn off!

Pete


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Peter Chant wrote:

>does from your experience would slackware 12.0 with Xfce (?spelling) be a
>reasonable runner on a K6 233 with 128MB ram?

A lot depends on your own definition of "reasonable." The good news
is that you can test this yourself by running a live CD such as
Slax or Knoppix. (Knoppix is fine for testing speedyness; distros
with the same kernel and window manager don't have large differences
in speed.)

Memory for such systems is cheap, so I would advise bringing it up
to 256K or 512K if the motherboard can handle larger memory sticks.

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Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/> wrote:


> A lot depends on your own definition of "reasonable." The good news
> is that you can test this yourself by running a live CD such as
> Slax or Knoppix. (Knoppix is fine for testing speedyness; distros
> with the same kernel and window manager don't have large differences
> in speed.)
>
> Memory for such systems is cheap, so I would advise bringing it up
> to 256K or 512K if the motherboard can handle larger memory sticks.
>

It is also obsolete. Shock horror - if it is 72pin EDO I can buy 64MB for a
£11! Still probably not worth spending money - more economic to scrounge a
newer machine.

Can't remember which type of memory it uses but it uses two sorts - one
that was just coming in at the time and an older technology. 128MB is the
maximum for the newer type of memory. I'll install to hard drive, as I
have a hard drive in the box and a live distro off of a 4x cdrom would be
painful! Actually the 4x drive is rather slow for the age of the machine
but the newer 50x drive I had in there failed and my old 4x never let me
down.

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Peter Chant wrote:


> £11! Still probably not worth spending money - more economic to scrounge
> a newer machine.

Hmm, just have done!

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