[LBo] Problem with finding the right distro

[Niki Kovacs]

Allen a écrit :
> 
> I've tried a bunch of distros and had miserable results so far. 
> The boxes are AMD K6 - 2+/270MHz with 256 Megs of ram.

Not very performing. With computers that old, I'd go for the latest 
Slackware 12.0, heavily stripped down, with XFCE as desktop. Or even 
IceWM. (Try Absolute Linux, an IceWM-based Slack fork for old hardware)

XFCE doesn't necessarily mean light. For example, Xubuntu eats more RAM 
than GNOME under Debian Etch (I'm not exactly an Ubuntu fan, I admit 
it... too many bugs).

I administer database servers and some dozens of clients in public 
libraries around here. I ran many tests with many distros: Slackware, 
Debian, KateOS (you might like that one), even a personal Slack-based 
distro (which I called Slickware).

I ended up with CentOS 5, a RHEL 5 clone, but based on a minimal 
install, and XFCE as desktop. Very (!) stable, very crisp, very fast. 
And, yes, Enterprise-class. Like: everything *just* works.

My 2 cents.

Niki