Fast Distro?

aggrosk8rdude · 06-28-2005, 01:40 PM

I have an old toshiba satellite 330CDT laptop. 266MHz. 64M RAM. ~4GB harddisk. I currently have Mandrake(Mandriva)10.1 running on it and it works all right, but is slow, especially at booting(4 min to login, 2 more to desktop). It runs DSL extremely fast, but I don't like DSL because there isn't much software.

Any suggestions for a distro that might run well on it?

deepclutch · 06-28-2005, 02:01 PM

TRY YOPER Linux! ; )

titanium_geek · 06-28-2005, 02:02 PM

Vector?

titanium_geek

hw-tph · 06-28-2005, 04:52 PM

Vector has worked well for me when installing it on far lesser hardware than yours (P166/40MB and similar configurations).

Or look into Gentoo. You can build the packages on another (faster) computer and then install them on your laptop if compile times is an issue.

Håkan

ctkroeker · 06-28-2005, 05:03 PM

Vector Damnsmall Gentoo
These are all good distro's for that box.

aggrosk8rdude · 06-28-2005, 05:04 PM

Looked into Vector and it looks like it should work a lot faster than mandrake has been running for me. I may also take a look at gentoo. I will let you know how it went in a couple days once I download vector or gentoo on my supposedly fast DSL :lol:.