Am Freitag, 3. Juli 2020, 19:17:33 CEST schrieb Davide Lombardo: Yeah, try debian/i386 with LXDE. It will run as fast as WindowsXP with a 2GHz singlecore cpu. Graphics speed will run fast enough for office applications like libreoffice, but not for games. Oh, does it run Doom? Of course! OpenGl-games might run, but the Riva TNT-2 is hardware accelerated, but compared to modern cards --slooooow! Problems might come in hardware, for example sound, but alsa should do it. If it runs pulseaudio? Do not know. I would give it a try. As I said above, LXDE would be my choice for a window manager (LXQT or RazorQT might also run well). These are small and fast. Running Gnome or Plasma5 will be pita. All other application should also be small. What do you need? A browser? Try firefox (yes, it migh be slow), but you can also try chromium. More small browser is Dillo. Mailing? You can try Thunderbird, but I would prefer Clawsmail, much faster. Office? Try Libreoffice, if this is too slow, try Abiword. This is running well and fast on my Sharp Zaurus (800MHz) and is Microsoft and Libreoffice compatible. Multimedia? Try VLC, might run well. If this is too slow, smplayer will be a good choice. It is small and fast. Such system is well for fast network analysis, so you can also make a mesure machine of, just with console, using nmap, dig, traceroute and all the other things, you need for analysis. Even metasploit run well on this as most network tools, as they often need very few processing power. And well, if all those does not work for you, try Damnsmalllinux, which is an old, but very fast linux running on a 48MB Machine with a Pentium 3 as fast as a WindowsXP machine on a 1,8GHz cpu with 2 GB RAM. But do not kick this system away as long as it can be usefull. And what about making a firewall of it or a logserver? Have fun! Best Hans > Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; > DRAM: 64 MB SDDR > GPU: RIVA TNT-2 > HARDISK: 10 GB > FLOPPY DISK DRIVE > MODEM 56K > In the receipt is written 3,000 Lire (1,500) Euro of today... > Do you think I can install something different than the already installed > WIN98 system ?
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