Re: system requirements for debian

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:57:55PM +0000, Bob Hynes wrote:
> I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty 
> slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I 
> could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm 
> also considering tying another version of Linux, but maybe this box is 
> just too slow at 500Mhz?

I run debian on a 100-MHz Pentium with 48MB ram.  It runs fine.  But:
  when I have X up, it has always been slow.  Even slower when I 
started running sarge.  I use icewm as window manager, and I wouldn't 
dream of tryin to use KDE or Gnome.  I do use gdm as my screen manager.  
It gives me a choice of window manager.  I pick icewm on its menu.

-- hendrik