[geeks] Distro recommendations

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Sep 22, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> So, I was recently given a Thinkpad i1300.  It's a fairly decently  
> fast
> machine, with a PIII/750, but with 192MB maximum RAM it's a bit  
> starved
> for memory during compiles.  I initially set it up as a Gentoo  
> testbed,
> and while it's done a good job at that and given me a pretty good idea
> of what configuration I want to use when (or, now, if) I migrate my
> primary Linux desktop to Gentoo, I don't think it's really a good
> distribution for this laptop -- large emerges on it are very slow.
>

Debian plus AfterStep or other minimal window manager should do it.

Cordially

Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net