[SlugBug] Linux Desktop for an OLD machine (newbie question)

Bruno Postle bruno at postle.net
Fri Jul 18 18:20:04 BST 2003


On Fri 18-Jul-2003 at 05:05:36PM +0100, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> 
> > What kind of distro can you put on an old computer such as this?
> 
> Redhat 9. Just replace the bluecurve desktop with something lighter /
> faster such as Windowmaker.

..plus turn off font antialiasing and any services you don't need.

Redhat 9 isn't intrinsically slower than anything else, it just has
a lot more things you can disable.

-- 
Bruno


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