Comments on: Ubuntu 7.04 on a 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:27:39 +0000

I did.

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/17/slackware-110-on-450mhz-k6-2-256mb/

By: Fisher

Fisher — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:06:35 +0000

Maybe you should take a lookk in Slackware. I used Slackware 10 with a K6 II 450 and 64 megs of ram. Runned pretty fast, I could even watch DVD/DIVX!!

By: Expected and unexpected « Motho ke motho ka botho

Expected and unexpected « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:33:41 +0000

[...] startup seems faster — I’m reaching the login in under 2.5 minutes, which is a big jump compared to 7.04. And of course, Firefox 3 is faster than version 2, an opinion that seems to be shared by almost [...]

By: Maybe it just takes three minutes « Motho ke motho ka botho

Maybe it just takes three minutes « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:14:00 +0000

[...] still … 3 minutes?! That’s terrible. That’s 450Mhz behavior. The first few times I started the machine, I assumed something was wrong and began whacking the [...]

By: Fluxbuntu 7.10 RC on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

Fluxbuntu 7.10 RC on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:51:39 +0000

[...] than a command-line installation on this system, but shorter than the default Xubuntu 7.04 or Ubuntu 7.04 [...]

By: Zenwalk 4.6.1 on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

Zenwalk 4.6.1 on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:52:52 +0000

[...] starting to feel sorry for — had an awful time running Zenwalk. It wasn’t as bad as a full Ubuntu installation, but even Xubuntu seemed to have more pep than [...]

By: oxidor

oxidor — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:38:55 +0000

3 minutes for booting ? that is very slowly…

By: Debianero Follonero

Debianero Follonero — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:14:07 +0000

I agree with Mike, you’d try Debian Etch.

I’ve that same machine, K6-2 at 450Mhz, but with 128Mb of RAM and is running flawlessly with Etch and XFCE.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:47:16 +0000

You really should try Debian Etch, it’s much faster and it uses much less memory than Ubuntu. Debian Etch with Gnome desktop runs just fine on P3@650Mhz laptop with 256MB RAM. After boot only about 100MB ram is in use. And eg. all of these are running: Beagle, NetworkManager, PowerManager, Update-notifier, Glipper, Avahi, PulseAudio etc etc.

By: alexandru

alexandru — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:31:18 +0000

For a faster system, you can try Puppy Linux. Does a good job with hardware detection and is highly customizable (if you don’t like the default window manager, which is fast but… you can easily install another one).