Linked by Richard White on Tue 15th Mar 2005 11:21 UTC
My basement is like a mortuary with the remains of computers all lying in state, waiting and hoping for a new lease on life. But what is there to do with the K6s, the Celerons, and Pentiums of the past. It seems nothing short of a miracle would bring these ghosts back to life.
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I resurrected a couple of old PCs (mostly PentiumPro - PentiumII stuff), and if I can, I choose VectorLinux. It is a Slackware-based distro that builds up a wonderfully customized, easy to install, easy to use IceWM-based desktop. It is up to date but faster and lighter than Debian Sarge in my experience and it already comes with all main desktop/networking apps (Firefox,Gaim,Abiword etc.) preinstalled and ready to work. Moreover with the newer versions it includes submount, that eliminates the mount/umount hassle for a newbie. Adding packages is easy, the only hassle is the dependency hell a newbie must handle with a Slack foundation in hands (perhaps they should include swaret or slapt-get... IMHO neither performs nearly as well as emerge of apt-get, but it is always better than nothing).
Plain slackware is another great choice IMHO, but of course requires a bit more tweakings (not much more than a Debian, anyway). I feel Slack has better performance than Debian on old machines (expecially with memory consumption).