DataForceCMS Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 I would like to know which distro would works better and faster on my IBM laptop with 128 RAM, which distro would takes less resources???? Tnx for suggestions!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenLin Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 IMHO, when you are talking about a laptop with limited memory, the distribution is not as important as the windowmanager. KDE and gnome are very big and ram hungry. I would devinitely advise you to look at XFCE, or if you want to go really minimal blackbox. I voted for SuSE because of it's acpi support. It is enabled out of the box and will respond to things like closing your lid, which redhat and fedora will ignore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezza Veteran Posted January 29, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 29, 2004 ^^ what KenLin said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_canada Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 mandrake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 29, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 29, 2004 Of the choices listed, I would say Mandy, because it defaults to having the lighter-weight Window Managers easily available. If you really want to minimize resource useage, go text-based operation! ;) Other than that, fluxbox, icewm, twm, etc. are all GUI alternatives to KDE/Gnome (which are more than just WMs, they are Desktop Environments) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_canada Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 mandrake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 pick a distro, then install minimal applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR_Candyman Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 slackware :p of the ones listed though, I'd go for mandrake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenLin Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 mandrake with such a compelling argument, how can he choose anything else? :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PseudoRandomDragon Posted January 31, 2004 Share Posted January 31, 2004 It is better than "^^^What he said" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aes Posted February 2, 2004 Share Posted February 2, 2004 If you've had any Linux experience before, I would recommend Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/). I have had it installed on my Dell Inspiron 8200 for several months, and am very, very happy with it. More difficult to get working than Mandrake and the like, but the installation instructions are, in my opinion, the best I've seen. So good in fact, you don't need the fancy GUI installations. Just my opinion, but I haven't had any problems and it runs great. :-) ~Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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