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On 12 October 2006 12:21, Karl Huysmans wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell laptop |
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> he got for free. |
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> The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be |
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> used by his young children. |
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> I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks nice, has a lot of very |
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> usefull stuff for kids, but it really runs too slow on this machine. |
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> So I was thinking Gentoo, optimized for PII, I guess -Os would be a good |
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> option for this little machine. Any thoughts anyone? |
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> What about the desktop? I guess Gnome or KDE is not really the best choice. |
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With 256MB of ram, KDE should run fine. When the whole thing is installed and |
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ready, don't forget to prelink the whole system. Makes a hell of a lot of a |
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difference when it comes to startup times of apps. |
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Uwe |
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