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your system is perfect
Posted by nt moore (more from nt moore) on Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:52:37
In Reply to: Re: OT: Max speed processor for an older PC?, Bill Homer [Profile/Gallery]
, Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:53:34
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My work machins is an old Apple G3 (300MHz) w/ 380MB of ram, running yellowdoglinux (a PPC port of RedHat). Although a little slow in booting up applications and moving graphics windows it is otherwise mostly indistinguishable from the new powerbook laptop I use around the University. For your purposes I'd suggest downloading the Mandrake distribution (http://www.mandrakesoft.com) - I've found it to be quite user friendly in the past. If you don't have access to a CD burner you can order the CD's from cheapbytes.com.
If you end up enjoying the experience there are a number of minimalist window managers out there for older systems. At present I switch between BlackBox and aewm - both run much much faster than KDE or Gnome (one of which Mandrake will probably try to install as default).
The office applications are mostly worthless (open office/staroffice in particular) but the spreadsheet program "gnumeric" works as advertised. My work is mainly coding and scientific typesetting so I rarely venture far from an xterm session.
One word of advice though. Try to set the machine up somewhere with relatively high speed network access. Although it is possible to use a modem with Linux, only crazy people succeed in getting it to work. Half the fun of linux is downloading and compiling new applications - one of my favorites thus far is "dopewars".
NT
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Posts in this Thread:
- OT: Max speed processor for an older PC?, Bill Homer , Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:40:52
- Re: OT: Max speed processor for an older PC?, Bill Homer , Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:53:34
- Perhaps upgrade not worth effort on that puppy?, saw, Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:23:06
- PPro not really upgradeable anymore, Trev, Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:12:15
- Re: OT: Max speed processor for an older PC?, IrieTom , Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:29:16
- Dump the old Motherboard., KB88900T, Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:21:57
- Re: OT: Max speed processor for an older PC?, David Farley, Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:54:14
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