Re: Debian on an old PC

["Vegard Lundby Rekaa" <vegardlr@student.matnat.uio.no>]

Good to here it works...
Thanks for the tips,
Cheers Vegard

> I've got debian woody running on an old Packard Bell P100, a 6 GB HD,
> 64Mb RAM; so I guess its possible.
>
> I got both Gnome and KDE desktops running on it. I'm trying to upgrade
> to Sarge but am having trouble getting X installed.
>
> Otherwise I'm quite happy with it. My 2 cents avoid a full blown desktop
> and use just windowmaker or blackbox (they seemed to be the most
> responsive on my system.)
>
> If you do use a desktop Gnome "seemed" to run faster than KDE - for some
> things.
>
> HTH,
>
> mw