Linked by Og Maciel on Tue 25th Jan 2005 20:24 UTC
In my never ending search for the ultimate challenge, I decided to remove Gentoo Linux from my trusty laptop and install something else that wasn't as resource starving. Thus, Debian was selected.
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"Just make sure the machine has more than 128 MBs of RAM, because otherwise, distros like Fedora, SuSE or Mdk are really slow on low RAM. Arch, Slackware or Debian are borderline slow with 128 MBs. Below that (e.g. 64 MBs), I suggest you stay with Windows 98SE or WinME."
I have Ubuntu running on an old 350MHz cpu, 128 Meg RAM Gateway machine, and it runs lickety-split fast. Everything just pops up virtually instantly, except, of course larger programs like OpenOffice or FireFox (Gecko rendering engine is big and takes a while to load) take longer to load.
I also have Ubuntu running on my 300MHz, 228 meg RAM Thinkpad 600, and again, it's blazingly fast. I've had Red Hat 9, Mandrake 10, SimplyMepis, and now Ubunut running on that machine, and Ubuntu was easily the fastest.
I'm amazed at how fast Ubuntu is on this legacy hardware.
A few other nice things about Ubuntu: It's based on Debian unstable (optimized and tested for stability), and it has a brain-dead easy installer, modified and optimized from the new Debian Sarge installer.