<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David J. Ring, Jr.</b> <<a href="mailto:n1ea@arrl.net">n1ea@arrl.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Unfortunately with the distributions I've tried, I find they run much slower<br>on older machines - much slower than Windows XP - which surprises me. I<br>have one machine that is a Pentium 3 at about 550 MHz with 64 MB RAM and it
<br>is slower than a slothful man at work time. Ringht now I'm running on<br>Mandriva Linux 2006 and it just creeps when doing anything.<br><br>Anyone have a recommendation for a linux distro that runs quickly on old<br>
machines?</blockquote><div><br>If you are not faint of heart, you could try Gentoo... But that's only for the strong-willed. Debian has run incredibly well on slower machines in my experience while running something as heavy-weight as Gnome. Even on fast machines Mandriva's default install seems to creep along. Of course the extreme of the measures might be something like DamnSmall - but I have no personal experience with it.
<br><br>Otherwise the advice of recompiling the kernel and using a light-weight WM are the best advice that can be given.<br><br>--Greg<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Best Wishes,<br><br>David Ring<br>Green Harbor, MA<br></blockquote></div><br>