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Aloone_Jonez:

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Now...nothing listed is a "hard" distro that supports old machines.  Those are all the easy, "bloated" ones.  I'll give you Fedora; it's slow.  But I've never had performance problems with Mandrake, SuSE, or Ubuntu, on said P2/400s with 128MB RAM.  (My school has a lot of those.)  It's actually kinda gotten better: Ubuntu Warty had a laggy Gnome 2.8, where opening the Run Application box took upwards of 10 seconds.  But Hoary changed this to about 2, and is more responsive overall.  I've only worked with Mandrake/SuSE 9.2, so I can't say if Mdk 10.1 would be faster on such machines.

You're not limited to harder stuff for old machines.  That is, provided you can get 128MB RAM for them.  Which you likely can.
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Fair enough, perhapps I wasn't being fair, as I was comparing them too much to Knoppix and Vector Linux, lol I think I'm becomming a zealot. Mandrake isn't too bad even though it's not the fastest, I haven't run SuSE before and I shouldn't have mentioned Linspire before as I've never used it.

Mandrake is similar speed to Windows in my experiance which isn't that bad, but bet it'll be way faster than Longhorn. Windows XP has a minmum requirement of 64MB of RAM and it's very slow on that, they recommend 128MB and it's not too bad unless you're running too many programs but I haven't run Mandrake on 128MB before so I don't know.

Sorry please forgive me for my Vector/Knoppix zealotism.

WMD:
Hey, I see where you come from, I run Slackware myself. ;)

noob:
the longhorn beta runs like a dog. i HAd an athlon 3.2 barton and it was so slow i couldnt believe it. that cpu would run xp pro sp2, another copy of pro sp2 inside vmware and i would run linux (a few distros) in vm aswell. and if the beta was really just xp with the interface tweaks and a bit of extra stuff, how is longhorn gunna shift? they will prob go with dell to get it out there asap. M$ have a winner, no one will waste time cracking activation for such a slow OS.

Aloone_Jonez:
Aren't you being a bit unfair, as you're only looking at the beta release?

WMD:
Beta usually have debugging code and stuff in them.  But still...if it's slow on a 3200+ Barton, how can they speed it up so machines with 1/3rd the CPU can run it?  That's an awful lot.

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