Distro for Older Hardware

Thu Apr 5 09:20:29 CDT 2007

I have not installed and I have very little knowledge as to the completeness 
of this particular distro, but I have read that Zenwalk is a very fast 
distro even on older Pentium II class systems. This distro is only about 2 
years old though so I don't know how mature it is.

http://www.zenwalk.org/

Best Wishes!

Jeffrey A. McCright, A+
816-210-3107
jmccright at hotmail.com

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>I have an old laptop, IBM Thinkpad 380 Z, that had Mandrake 9.1 installed 
>and
>running reasonably.  It's a low-power system, with only a 300MHz PII, 96M 
>of
>ram, and a 3G hard drive, but it ran Mandrake reasonably well.
>
>Unfortunately, support for 9.1 is no longer available (with good reason, 
>great
>advances have been made), and that means I can't set up either of my 
>wireless
>cards, at least not easily.
>
>I decided to try Kubuntu on it, and used the Alternate CD that's supposed 
>to
>allow for older. less powerful systems.  The results are pretty poor.  The
>install didn't check to see that I'd passed a custom option to the kernel 
>so
>it could boot (ide=nodma).  It didn't detect the sound system at all 
>(ubuntu
>seems to be having some serious problems with sound these days).  It failed
>to detect the CardBus ethernet card at boot, although I was able to 
>configure
>it.  It doesn't appear to have adjusted it's package selection by much; I 
>had
>to remove OpenOffice to get enough space to run the initial package update.
>The install took around eight hours to complete, the package update just
>finished after over an hour.
>
>I really haven't had a chance to give the system a fair chance yet, but
>looking at how long the text-mode update took, I'm not optimistic.
>
>I have the CD for DamnSmallLinux, and I will probably try that next.  I 
>know
>some of you have built linux systems on older hardware, and I'd like to 
>know
>what you'd recommend for a system of this vintage.  Surely there's 
>something
>as capable today as Mandrake was five (?) years ago?
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