I am changing my OS for my 15 networked PCs in my office from Windows to
Linux. I have already installed 5 PCs with RH9.0 in the Celeron PCs. They
are running fine although a bit slower than when they were running Win98se.
They can all access the Internet by way of a router-modem D-Link DSL-500G. I
have 10 PCs which are Celeron 700mhz with 256megs and 5PCs which are
Pentium2s with 64megs. It is the Pentium2s which are troubling me. Which
older version of Linux distros would be suitable to be installed in these
Pentium2s. Will the old Mandrake 6.0 be suitable? I suppose RH9.0 will not
run in these Pentium2s, or am I wrong about this? The main objective is that
all 15PC must be networked and be able to access the internet by way of the
router-modem.

You don't need to use an old distro, just do a custom installation with

It is the Pentium2s which are troubling me. Which
older version of Linux distros would be suitable to be installed in these
Pentium2s.

I am changing my OS for my 15 networked PCs in my office from Windows to
Linux. I have already installed 5 PCs with RH9.0 in the Celeron PCs. They

are running fine although a bit slower than when they were running Win98se.
They can all access the Internet by way of a router-modem D-Link DSL-500G. I
have 10 PCs which are Celeron 700mhz with 256megs and 5PCs which are
Pentium2s with 64megs. It is the Pentium2s which are troubling me. Which
older version of Linux distros would be suitable to be installed in these
Pentium2s. Will the old Mandrake 6.0 be suitable? I suppose RH9.0 will not
run in these Pentium2s, or am I wrong about this? The main objective is that
all 15PC must be networked and be able to access the internet by way of the
router-modem.

In comp.os.linux.setup Tsun Szu <bentay@streamyx.com>:
I am changing my OS for my 15 networked PCs in my office from Windows to
Linux. I have already installed 5 PCs with RH9.0 in the Celeron PCs.
They

Please, please don't install EOL distro like RH 9. Use FC3, RH
enterprise or one of the available clones, centOS or so if you
like/want rh.

The problem is usually KDE (3) which uses quite some memory, I'd
suggest Debian (sarge) on those systems, 64MB might be not enough
to run KDE 3 comfortable, but it's worth a try and you can install
a lighter wm like fvwm2 or so if it doesn't work out. IMHO Debian
outperforms other distro easily on the same hardware.

Another good idea would be http://www.ltsp.org/ one server with a
little RAM (512MB - 2GB) this would make pretty good thin clients
out of your systems.

I am changing my OS for my 15 networked PCs in my office from Windows
to Linux. I have already installed 5 PCs with RH9.0 in the Celeron PCs.
They are running fine although a bit slower than when they were running
Win98se.

They can all access the Internet by way of a router-modem D-Link
DSL-500G. I have 10 PCs which are Celeron 700mhz with 256megs and 5PCs
which are Pentium2s with 64megs. It is the Pentium2s which are
troubling me. Which older version of Linux distros would be suitable to
be installed in these Pentium2s. Will the old Mandrake 6.0 be suitable?
I suppose RH9.0 will not run in these Pentium2s, or am I wrong about
this? The main objective is that all 15PC must be networked and be able
to access the internet by way of the router-modem.

The problem you are likely to have with the Pentium-IIs is that they do

"Michael Heiming" <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote in message
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In comp.os.linux.setup Tsun Szu <bentay@streamyx.com>:
I am changing my OS for my 15 networked PCs in my office from Windows to
Linux. I have already installed 5 PCs with RH9.0 in the Celeron PCs.
They

Please, please don't install EOL distro like RH 9. Use FC3, RH
enterprise or one of the available clones, centOS or so if you
like/want rh.

FC3 is way, way too heavyweight for less than 1.0 GHz machines expected to
run things like OpenOffice or web browsers. I'd use Centos, the free rebuild
of RedHat Enterprise Linux, and use version 3.

The problem is usually KDE (3) which uses quite some memory, I'd
suggest Debian (sarge) on those systems, 64MB might be not enough
to run KDE 3 comfortable, but it's worth a try and you can install
a lighter wm like fvwm2 or so if it doesn't work out. IMHO Debian
outperforms other distro easily on the same hardware.

Another good idea would be http://www.ltsp.org/ one server with a
little RAM (512MB - 2GB) this would make pretty good thin clients
out of your systems.

I'd suggest throwing out KDE and GNOME and using fvwn95, which is a vastly
lighter weight window manager.

I'd suggest throwing out KDE and GNOME and using fvwn95, which is a
vastly lighter weight window manager.

If that is anything like fvwm that came with Red Hat Linux 5.0, it is much

I am changing my OS for my 15 networked PCs in my office from Windows to
Linux. I have already installed 5 PCs with RH9.0 in the Celeron PCs. They
are running fine although a bit slower than when they were running Win98se.

suppose RH9.0 will not run in these Pentium2s, or am I wrong about this?

The main objective is that all 15PC must be networked and be able to
access the internet by way of the router-modem.

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:03:17 +0800, Tsun Szu wrote:


I am changing my OS for my 15 networked PCs in my office from Windows to
Linux. I have already installed 5 PCs with RH9.0 in the Celeron PCs. They
are running fine although a bit slower than when they were running Win98se.


RH/Fedora is always going to be slow and bloated (out of the box) except
on very new hardware IMHO. It's not a good choice for old hardware.

Something like Debian (never tried but heard lots of good things about),
or Slackware would seem like a nicer choice.

Steer clear of Gnome or KDE too; they both eat memory something rotten.
Lighter window managers as suggested by others are a much better bet.

On this machine with an LCD display, I get:

I am changing my OS for my 15 networked PCs in my office from Windows to
Linux. I have already installed 5 PCs with RH9.0 in the Celeron PCs. They
are running fine although a bit slower than when they were running Win98se.
They can all access the Internet by way of a router-modem D-Link DSL-500G. I
have 10 PCs which are Celeron 700mhz with 256megs and 5PCs which are
Pentium2s with 64megs. It is the Pentium2s which are troubling me. Which
older version of Linux distros would be suitable to be installed in these
Pentium2s. Will the old Mandrake 6.0 be suitable? I suppose RH9.0 will not
run in these Pentium2s, or am I wrong about this? The main objective is that
all 15PC must be networked and be able to access the internet by way of the
router-modem.


I am using Slackware 9 on an old 486 with 20MB. But it is command line.

It is the Pentium2s which are troubling me. Which
older version of Linux distros would be suitable to be installed in these
Pentium2s.

Remains beyond me, why you exactly recapitulate the things I
already addressed, using a different (lightweight) wm. Where, if
any is the point behind your contribution?

"Michael Heiming" <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote in message
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Remains beyond me, why you exactly recapitulate the things I
already addressed, using a different (lightweight) wm. Where, if
any is the point behind your contribution?

Well, I gave him a suggested minimum hardware for running FC3, which his
hardware clearly doesn't have and is why he shouldn't go to the FC3 you
suggested, suggested a lighter weight RedHat based alternative (Centos 3),
and suggested ways he could lighten it up by throwing out KDE and Gnome.
Hmm. Doesn't sound like recapitulating to *me*....