[ale] Best Choice for under-powered System

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Slackware.  But you're going to run into problems trying to run the 
latest mozilla/netscape in that environment.  Just requires more horsepower.

John M Trostel wrote:
> I've cobbled together a system for my son from an old 100 MHz Pentium
> (I) wt. 64 MB of RAM.... 4 M of that RAM is used by the on-board SIS
> video chip.  It's got a whopping 1 GB HDD, a cd drive and a 3.5"
> floopy.  An old SMC 10BT ethernet card rounds out his $0 cost system. 
> (Actually $5, as I needed a PS2/AT keyboard converter dongle.)
> 
> Right now I have the system running RH 7.1. Do you realize how many
> upgrades there are out for the stock 7.1 distro now? ;)
> 
> He needs a system that will run Netscape/Mozilla/Galeon with Java
> support.  It barely runs on the system set up now.  (Mozilla and Java). 
> Would I be better off running Debian on this box? (Leaner, meaner, 
> slightly less than glacial...) Or even something like Vector Linux,
> which is supposedly for just such a situation? The ISO of Vector I
> burned seems to have trouble... Has anyone else tried Vector or another
> small distro for old machines that includes X, a nice windowing system,
> and a java-enabled browser?
> 

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Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net

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