Earlier this week I installed a minimalist configuration of RH 8.0 on my old Thinkpad 365XD (P133/40MB/6GB). The configuration works fine except for being slow due to lack of processor and memory (40 MB RAM is max'd). The only snag I ran into was a hang on install just before the first RPM installs. The machine locked up there twice during the text install. I found this lockup only happened to me doing a "custom" install and not the "workstation" install. RH 8.0 does seem improved over RH 7.X in terms of the quality of fonts and GUI mods. I also found more things I could quickly disable features to make life bearable on this old hardware (wallpaper,menu icons,etc). Unfortunately, I have not tried other distributions yet and cannot intelligently compare them to RH 7.X or 8.0. My next step is to find a very small window manager to hopefully make this machine perform reasonably in X. Currently I am considering replacing the default Gnome with either IceWM and Enlightenment. Joel =====================
Hello, About 24 months ago I gave linux RH 6.2 a try. I am not a programmer >and not very familiar with unix or linux. I did get the linux to run >and was able to connect to the internet but had a lot of trouble >getting printers to work and found it generally difficult for someone >with my skill level.
WLUG was very helpful and I though that in a while I would try again. >I think that this fall I am going to make another effort. Are there >any suggestions of what distro to try. Basically I will have a dual >boot system with either xp or 2000. I have a PII 450 with 196mb ram >and 13gig HD.
I appreciate the advice. Thanks Tom
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MDK 9.0 is a nice distro, Lycoris is good as well for starters. Wes On Friday 04 October 2002 5:29 pm, joel jones wrote:
Earlier this week I installed a minimalist configuration of RH 8.0 on my old Thinkpad 365XD (P133/40MB/6GB). The configuration works fine except for being slow due to lack of processor and memory (40 MB RAM is max'd).
The only snag I ran into was a hang on install just before the first RPM installs. The machine locked up there twice during the text install. I found this lockup only happened to me doing a "custom" install and not the "workstation" install.
RH 8.0 does seem improved over RH 7.X in terms of the quality of fonts and GUI mods. I also found more things I could quickly disable features to make life bearable on this old hardware (wallpaper,menu icons,etc). Unfortunately, I have not tried other distributions yet and cannot intelligently compare them to RH 7.X or 8.0.
My next step is to find a very small window manager to hopefully make this machine perform reasonably in X. Currently I am considering replacing the default Gnome with either IceWM and Enlightenment.
Joel =====================
Hello, About 24 months ago I gave linux RH 6.2 a try. I am not a programmer >and not very familiar with unix or linux. I did get the linux to run >and was able to connect to the internet but had a lot of trouble >getting printers to work and found it generally difficult for someone >with my skill level.
WLUG was very helpful and I though that in a while I would try again. >I think that this fall I am going to make another effort. Are there >any suggestions of what distro to try. Basically I will have a dual >boot system with either xp or 2000. I have a PII 450 with 196mb ram >and 13gig HD.
I appreciate the advice. Thanks Tom
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