My AMD Duron 1.3 with 256 megs of ram

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Dragokatzov Send message Joined: 5 Oct 05 Posts: 25 Credit: 2,446,376 RAC: 0	Message 16320 - Posted: 15 May 2006, 17:18:44 UTC I am currently running Ubuntu 5.10 on this along with Rosetta @home. I was thinking since where this is an older computer, maybe Ubuntu is sucking up more resources and maybe i should consider a lighter distribution, that will run from the hard drive. any suggestions? or should i just keep Ubuntu Victory is the ONLY option! ID: 16320 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Dimitris Hatzopoulos Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 336 Credit: 80,939 RAC: 0	Message 16325 - Posted: 15 May 2006, 17:32:51 UTC - in response to Message 16320. I am currently running Ubuntu 5.10 on this along with Rosetta @home. I was thinking since where this is an older computer, maybe Ubuntu is sucking up more resources and maybe i should consider a lighter distribution, that will run from the hard drive. any suggestions? or should i just keep Ubuntu Ubuntu is built on Debian. It's considered a more "friendly" version of Debian. So, to avoid learning new admin-tools (like apt-get ... stuff) you could just install a minimalistic Debian (Sarge, latest stable, if you have fast Internet get it from http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/). If it's a an older PC you could install older kernel 2.4.x (I believe its install CD does choose kernel 2.4 automatically) That's what I do, I don't even load the X11 system. Instead I use SSH to login. Best UFO Resources Wikipedia R@h How-To: Join Distributed Computing projects that benefit humanity ID: 16325 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote