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es02

Linux: How far has it really come?

Nov 12, 2009 23:16

In my lap I have a copy (from 1999) of Macmillan Linux 6.5 (based on Linux-mandrake 6.1(Based on Red Hat 6.0)).
It boasted a 2.2.13 kernel, KDE 1.1.2 on Xfree86 3.3.5. For most of my Flist that is pretty meaningless so let me see if I can find you a screenshot.
( mandrake pic... )

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anonymous November 13 2009, 05:28:22 UTC

You should get away with Ubuntu so long as you have around 1gb ram. Fedora *may* work happily, I wouldn't bother with SUSE on that box.

Just remember that you wont be able to use a lot of the pretties like Compiz as your machine won't have the grunt.

wizarth November 14 2009, 09:35:52 UTC

You'd be surprised what Compiz does work on. Not the shiny flashiest effects, but the basic effects work on some remarkably low end systems. I'm talking Intel graphics chips.

Ubuntu will work on most things with 1GB, or even less. I'd recommend Ubuntu versus Xbuntu for someone who just wants their machine to work, versus someone who doesn't mind a bit of fiddling for something that's leaner.

I've got my father in law running Ubuntu on a machine older then that. At least, I think it is. There was some mention that someone upgraded the hardware (or more accurately, transplanted the hard drive).