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Best builds to use on lower-end computers ?

monsquaz	Date: August 6, 2003 @ 8:18 PM Wow... first post on a MAJOR BOARD that's not mine. A first for me. BUT I DIGRESS ! I've got a couple old computers (old Mac Performas), and I'm interested in possibly installing Linux onto a couple of them. Anyone know of good ones to put on a lower-end computer such as an old Macintosh Performa ? Thanks.
Apertome	Date: August 6, 2003 @ 8:30 PM I don't know much about Macs, but the first thing that comes to mind is Debian. Also pleased to see this new forum. Back to Debian, it exists for numerous architectures, has great package management, I've had great success running it on low-end boxes. OTOH, you might want to consider a BSD (probably NetBSD in this case).
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pixelmasochist	Date: August 6, 2003 @ 10:16 PM I agree with mux here, debian still maintains support for i383's =D (not 586 & 686) wheras all the other major players have upped the arch :/ Debian also has a vast user/package base which is always a good thing. To be honest if I could find my '030 I'd install it on my amiga
Expose	Date: August 6, 2003 @ 11:25 PM Advanced or beginner?
Expose	Date: August 11, 2003 @ 8:41 PM Slackware.
princess-angry	Date: August 11, 2003 @ 9:16 PM debian runs great on my 233MHZ pentium1.
unoblee	Date: November 9, 2003 @ 4:55 PM Why do I have to learn about pencils to write songs better? Is this akin to learning about computers to record music better? I need something more stable than Windows for recording audio. I'm going to try linux. Any sugestions, helpful hints or warnings?
Thaspian	Date: November 9, 2003 @ 5:25 PM Warning - it's a bitch. In general. It... works, but it's hard. Anyway. Screw the distro wars, it's mainly the window manager you'll use that'll determine if it'll work fast on a legacy system. http://www.xfce.org is a great window manager that comes with a few distros that you can also install yourself that works nicely on older systems.
tomkerswill	Date: March 22, 2004 @ 4:21 AM Mmmmm, yeah I used to use SuSE which is brilliant for first-time users, and works very well on mac / power PC. But on old computers I would say Debian would be a good bet. From my experience it works really well with older hardware, and doesn't put on any crap that you don't need! The cool thing about Linux is you'll be able to get it working in SOME capacity even on very old machines--- you can begin by getting just a terminal working and then add graphic capabilities and more complex stuff. I'd recommend fvwm as a display manager as it is very simple and doesn't slow stuff down but nevertheless works well. Another cool thing is that you can login graphically to you Linux machine using another computer. This might work quite well on a low-end mac... hmmm you could even use one as the display machine and one as the processing power.... So I've got a nice new recording system running on Linux on my desktop computer. It's plugged into the mixer, etc. But I actualy use my laptop to control it - it has a wireless connection so I can just sit it on the floor in front of my guitar and hit record, and hey presto the desktop machine begins recording. Tom
UnbreakableTed	Date: March 22, 2004 @ 11:21 AM Low-end computers? There's only one way to go: tomsrtbt. Or, more seriously, Slackware and Debian are probably your only real options. Slackware will run better on worse hardware, but Debian's the greatest if you're lazy.