Re: [MLUG] winpoison, Mandrake 8.1, and OpenOffice

["Matthew W. Ross" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I planned on using it to learn X at home, including wine, and run as a
test webserver on the side.  I picked 8.1 simply because I've had good
luck with 8.0 at work, albeit on a 266 with 64 mb ram.  I'm still very
much a linux newbie, so I'll ask, what dist do you reccomend?  The max
memory on this box is 40mb, as it won't hold the new chips.  I'm not sure
I can even find an chip for a box this old.  The only thing still useable
if I were to upgrade is the CDRW and the 3.5 floppy, the rest is obsolete,
and designed solely for this Compaq case, so the box is only useful as-is.
That said, what dist should I look for?  I'm very eager to get away from
mandrake 8.1 anyway, as the d/l says I have 398+ hours remaining from
UMR's ftp.  I know there are dists which don't require a gb d/l.  

Matthew Ross
EMAIL:PROTECTED


> > On that note, anyone have good/bad luck with OpenOffice?
> > As soon as I get my old 166 emptied of useful files, I intend to try
it
> > under Mandrake (assuming this d/l of 8.1 ever finnishes).  Anybody
know
> > of problems with Mandrake and Compaq Presario's or of any reason I
> > shouldn't use 8.1 on a 166 with 32 mb and 2gb hd? 
> Yes; it will be very slow if you install KDE2 (it is about as 
> resource-intensive as Win2k) or Gnome.  I would not even bother
installing 
> anything other than their libraries, since they will NOT run well on
that 
> machine.  Blackbox/icewm/other lightweight WMs will run fairly well as
long 
> as you don't run anything too major. If you can, upgrade the RAM to 128
megs. 
>  It will make a BIG difference.  However, I wouldn't expect to get much
out 
> of that box if you run X.  Now, console is a different story - you might
get 
> a nice firewall/webserver/Quake server with it as long as it is not
heavily 
> accessed.  But, the system will run like Win95 on a P-60.
> > As I understand, it
> > has the surprisingly high requirement of 32mb min, which does bother
me,
> > but I've never seen a 586 box Linux didn't run well under.
> Dude, I would NOT want to run X on a 166 Mhz box with that much ram.  I
have 
> an i-opener with 128 megs of ram and a Winchip 200Mhz proc (granted,
it's 
> probably like a p-133) and it is fairly sluggish.  I am running icewm.
When 
> I had 32 megs of ram in there, the system could only be said to be
"usable".  
> It was SLOW.  And if you run 8.1 (which has KDE2 as the default),
OpenOffice 
> will run like Office XP on a P-100.  I would try some lightweight distro 
> instead.  Linux with KDE2 runs slower than Win98 on similar hardware.
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