--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "g.linuxducks" <g.linuxducks@...> wrote:
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> Bookmark:
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> Bodhi Linux Is Beautiful & Works On Very Old Computers [Linux]
> Try a lightweight, beautiful Linux distro that works on very old hardware.
> Bodhi Linux can run on processors with only 300 MHz so imagine how well
> it will ...
> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/bodhi-linux-beautiful-works-computers-linux/
I read that article and I am wondering what the author of it meant by this line, "Don't worry, all the standard Ubuntu package management tools are here for you to use."
The only software that could even remotely be called a package management tool that Canonical has written that I've heard of is the Ubuntu Software Center, and it is more a content pushing mechanism than a utility to me.
Now back to the whole which distribution works the best on a low resource system theme. I run Debian Lenny on my P3 here. A while back when the RAM module in it went bad I managed to get into X Window on the 22 MB of remaining good RAM that system had. Something I didn't even think was possible today, but just the desktop ran fine. I did experience some sluggishness when I tried to start a web browser, Iceweasel (Debian's FireFox). It wasn't until then that I even knew there was anything wrong with that computer.
That system is pretty customized and built for a specific purpose. So just slapping Lenny on a machine no one is going to get quite the performance I experienced. It still happened though:
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2250/wedoct27bootchart.png
Sorry, no screenshot of X with 22 MB of RAM but it did happen. At that time I had other concerns, like fixing it! I wish I had took one now though.
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