What is the lightest version of UNIX KDE 2

[wolwol]

We have some laptop that we are sending to Cambodia, these laptops are very slow. I am looking for a way that the users can use them Windows is too slow?

Thanks in advance.

 

[feherke]

Hi

I do not fully understand your question, but if you are asking for window manager alternatives then take a look at

http://xwinman.org/

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Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[wolwol]

I have some older slower laptops I would like to install Lunix on them what version can I install that does not leave a large footprint?

 

[geirendre]

For the lightest distros check out:
Puppy-Linux

http://www.puppylinux.com/

DSL

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

These runs ok on P3 with 128Mb RAM.

Depending on your laptops you could also try
Ubuntu with the Xfce4 desktop, called Xubuntu

http://www.xubuntu.org/

But you need 256Mb RAM and CPU >= P4 to get decent performance with it.

 

[xwb]

How much older/slower are the laptops. What sort of spec are you talking about?

DSL, Puppy and Vector will are OK on a 400MHz PII but don't work very well on 120MHz P1s. Even Fedora9 is not too bad on a 400MHz PII.

For P1s, you need something really old like RH5 or SUSE6 but it is next to impossible to find them on the net. I got mine from a book in a 2nd hand bookstore. I haven't found any new distros that work well on really old laptops with 32-64Mb RAM.

 

[geirendre]

And also the new kid in distro-land, Debris Linux.

http://debris.moonmind.net/

Ubuntu spin-off targeting yesterdays computers...