kwlam Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 I have installed mandrake on my computer since version 8.2. Now I am using 10.1. My computer is PII with 128M RAM, I found that the newer version is getting faster. However, if I use windows with the same computer, it will be slower if I use newer version, eg. windows 98 to xp. Why is there such a difference? Is it due to the fact that there is much improvement in the newer version of mandrake? How about if I installed even newer version of mandrake without upgrading the CPU, RAM and other hardware? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 modern guis are hogs. you may want to consider a lightweight window manager instead of kde or gnome. the issue is generally not the os, but the gunk on top of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachwor Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Also look into Puppy Linux. It's a great Linux variation for aging computers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymbaloum Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Also look into Puppy Linux. It's a great Linux variation for aging computers. I'll second that. Puppy Linux rocks, and not only in only computers (if you prefer computer reactivity to nice graphics). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Couldn't resist this. Yesterday, I came across a website that had the following tiny story. It is about an advertisement slogan it wanted in a Japanese promo campaign. But typically M*******t, smug Know-it-alls that they are, got it wrong. The Microsoft ad slogan, as translated into Japanese: If you don't know where you want to go, we'll make sure you get taken. They unwittingly let the truth slip out. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 How about if Iinstalled even newer version of mandrake without upgrading the CPU, RAM and other hardware? I have been probably spending as much time with the Puppy Linux http://www.puppylinux.org development process (testing) as I do with the Cooker (next Mandriva testing). Both distros are targeted for a different audience. Puppy is specifically designed for older platforms with fewer hardware resources. My test platform for Puppy is: Dell Insperon 7500 Model PPI Intel, Celeron 466Mhz 440BX Chipset 64MB DRAM 6.5GB HD 20VDC, 3.5A PS Belkin Wireless G PCMCIA F5D7010, BCMWL5-INF XP2K Driver This machine was originally supplied with either Win/98 or ME2000. A friend had been attempting to get WinBlows XP Pro to work on it. XP does in fact install completely but does complain of limited resources during the install. When installed the time it takes WinBlows XP to boot from power up to a working desktop on this machine is just about 10 minutes. Once at a working desktop the time to open Word is another 10 minutes. Using Ranish Partition Manager http://www.ranish.com/part/ I split the HD into two partitions. The first at 1GB is a Linux Swap partition, the second and rest of the HD into a Linux ext3 partition. From power up to a working desktop using the Puppy Live-CD takes just about 90 seconds. From the click on the Abiword Icon to a working wordprocessor takes about 10 seconds. The install of the driver to support the Belkin WiFi adapter is a little tricky but ndiswrapper does what it's expected to do and your off and running in just a couple minutes of install time. One of the more exciting parts of the Puppy development process is to get it all to work in 32MB of real DRAM. Puppy Linux - WOOF! WOOF! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 I did not have much luck recently, with either Puppy or Damn Small Linux (thrying to install both on a pendrive). Puppy installs and runs extremely smoothly, but due to a bug that comes and goes it somehow sees the ethernet cat5 "unplugged" at boot and fails to run the network. Surely enough it's curable (several posts about that at Puppy forums), but it's very annoying, nevertheless. DSL fails to boot its own kernel from the pendrive, where almost every other OS I have installed works. Never installed them to harddisk, nor will I- my search for MY Linux distro has ended long ago- and its neither of them, nor Mandriva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 A bit but, just out of interest, what distro did you go for?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 (edited) A bit but, just out of interest, what distro did you go for?!? Using Arch Linux since July, 2004. Since today, on my main desktop it has been installed only once, if that means something. Still it's i686 only (the i586 and 64-bit versions are just now issuing some prebetas), but I guess it can be used on 90%+ of the currently running PC's, or not? Edited February 28, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scythe Posted March 1, 2006 Report Share Posted March 1, 2006 Also look into Puppy Linux. It's a great Linux variation for aging computers. Damn Small Linux also makes a nice 50MB size operating system that works surprisingly fast. Aparrently it can boot from a USB drive, but the LiveCD works well. And I don't think that that old system would support USB booting, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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