Its the 96MB of RAM that is killing you. I've run Redhat 9.0 with KDE on a couple of 333 PIIs and it ran reasonably well but they had 192MB and 512MB of memory. One option is to bag KDE and use one of the less resource intensive windowing systems like Blackbox. --rick PHPTOm wrote: >Hello all. > >A friend of my fiance, let's call her "Mel", needs a computer. I decided to >give Mel an old 460 mhz PIII dell. It has 96 mg ram. > >Mel heard about Linux on MPR or something and is willing to try it out. > >I loaded SuSe on it and it is soooo slow. Is there a distro out there that >is designed specifically to run on old, slow machines with little ram. Is >it just KDE? Is 450 MHZ not capable? Right now she has an old (even >slower) pII laptop. Is there any way to optimize KDE to run as efficently >as possible? She needs Open Office. > >I would hate to have to load windows 98 on it just for speed reasons. > >TOm > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list