On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 17:11 -0400, icelinux@icelinux.net wrote: > I came up with nothing on Google for stem linux., and DeliLinux > looks to be turkish so I don't know if we would even be to > communicate. I should try talking with them, their desktop looks > pretty nice. I have already done a bit of research on what > applications similar distributions are using, tested some other > applications, created a preliminary package list and currently have > the prototype running beautifully on my old 500Mhz AMD. I am not > trying to target the 486 crowd, I am aiming for PII & PIII. <snip> My wife is happily running Debian (sarge) and GNOME on a laptop with a Pentium II processor (and 192 MB RAM). Why do you think a custom Debian distribution is necessary for this class of system? (Perhaps RAM is more of a constraint than processor speed?) Have the desktop environments become more demanding between sarge and etch? I thought that GNOME had recently seen improvements in performance and memory requirements, though this might have happened after version 2.14. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.
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