OT: What to use on a PIII in Bulgaria?

[Richmond Mathewson]

I have just 'redone' my PIIIs with Ubuntu 8.04; from what I can
see they seem no slower than 5.10 --- we shall see over the next few
weeks; the reason I did this was to play .SWF files. Certainly for
my RR programs they are OK; otherwise we shall have to wait and see.

However, I foresee a "dirty weekend" where I spend a lot of time
sending them back to 5.10 . . .  If the price of playing .SWF files
is that Open Office grinds to a shuddering halt, then it's not worth
it: especially as my G3 iMac at the front of the classroom is very
happy with the .SWF files.

Logical Choices are all well and good, but one has to deal with
children who cannot function unless the GUI looks remarkably like
Windows XP.

Peter Alcibiades wrote:
> I'd not use Xubuntu out of the box - Distrowatch this week has a nice piece 
> showing that its very much more resource intensive, like in some cases 
> 10x,  than Xfce on Debian.  
>
> One could do a custom Xubuntu install and leave out all the fat.  In which 
> case a barebones Lenny install will be more stable and no more trouble.
>
> But surely the logical choice for a PIII is not Xfce, Gnome or KDE, but 
> Fluxbox, and maybe not even Debian or Ubuntu, but Puppy with one of the 
> minimalist WMs, Fluxbox or JWM for instance.  A barebones Debian with 
> Fluxbox or JWM will be quite fast.  Slax is also not bad, a bit more 
> featured than Puppy and comes with Fluxbox which you can use instead of 
> the stripped down KDE which is the default.
>
> Xfce is a bit lighter weight than Gnome or KDE, but there is not a huge 
> amount in it, and Fluxbox beats all three by a mile.  Puppy is brilliant 
> for low end machines.  There is a minimalist Fluxbox Ubuntu, Fluxbuntu.  
> Might be worth considering also if one really wants to stay with Ubuntu.
>
> Peter
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