Suse 9.0 has fvmw2 as an option also.
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 10:12 am, you wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tim Wright wrote:
> > The computer is an Acer Aspire with an AMD i586 or i686 processor (K6?),
> > 32Meg of RAM
>
> Others have already suggested checking and expanding the RAM, so I won't.
>
> > and a single expansion slot used by a winmodem.
>
> ... and they mentioned that the winmodem might be a problem.
>
> > It generated kernal panics when I tried installing Caldera eDesktop 2.4,
>
> That must be antique. Caldera -> SCO way back when...
>
> > so I tried Red Hat 7.1.
>
> I _know_ that is.
>
> > I suspect the Red Hat install is DOA.
>
> If you like RedHat. try a later version of that (like 9 or Fedora), and
> don't install things you don't absolutely need. Also, recompile your
> kernel, disabling drivers you don't need, and go through the (x)inetd
> config.
>
> > What is a good "lightweight" distribution for a cheapie machine like
> > this?
>
> KDE and Gnome suck a lot of RAM. You probably want X, so use X with a
> light-weight window manager, such as FVWM2.
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