Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC?

Path	csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From	John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC?
Date	Mon, 7 Jul 2025 09:26:32 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Lines	20
Message-ID	<20250707092632.0000201d@gmail.com> (permalink)
References	<1031ot5$36t1$1@dont-email.me> <103386r$lpbg$3@dont-email.me> <1033rb4$2p1d$1@dont-email.me> <1033ugp$3aqu$4@dont-email.me> <10379no$19q5v$7@dont-email.me> <103bpuk$1am27$1@dont-email.me> <103c4km$1dc17$10@dont-email.me> <6868eea1$0$12928$426a74cc@news.free.fr>
MIME-Version	1.0
Content-Type	text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding	quoted-printable
Injection-Date	Mon, 07 Jul 2025 18:26:36 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info	dont-email.me; posting-host="bbf982183c8ec9faed8ffd4769fd5156"; logging-data="3076455"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/OKucuu0Ks/cauZ5Qo4FxGGpDjpDQBvsM="
Cancel-Lock	sha1:NdXd7+pITbCXfa7CeLPFqQWT+yE=
X-Newsreader	Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32)
Xref	csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69457

Show key headers only | View raw

On 05 Jul 2025 09:21:37 GMT
Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

> > To compare apples and apples the EEEPC was fine as just a GUI. It
> > was when you wanted to use a web browser and email it collapsed in
> > a fainting fit  
> 
> For a web browser, it depends mostly on the website which can be
> poorly designed. For the emails, I don't see why it should be slow.

Yeah, that was the era where Javascript-centric web design was just
starting to become really epidemic and before browser developers had
really focused in on tuning for maximum JS performance - open a nice
simple static HTML page and things would be A-okay, but navigate over
to one of the new abominations and the poor thing would grind to a halt.

(Whichever web developer came up with the first page that needed
scripts enabled to display static page content should've been shot then
and there, as a warning to the rest.)

Back to comp.os.linux.misc | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-21 21:55 +0000
  Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-06-23 07:56 -0700
    Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-23 18:58 +0100
      Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-06-24 09:03 +1000
        Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-06-24 07:44 -0700
          Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-25 01:41 -0400
            Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-06-25 09:34 -0700
              Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-25 18:57 -0400
            Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-07-05 09:26 +0000
              Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-05 18:29 +0000
                Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-07-06 07:20 +1000
                Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-05 22:22 +0000
                Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-07-05 15:31 -0700
                Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-06 04:34 +0000
                Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-07-06 01:51 -0400
                Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-06 09:07 +0100
              Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-06 03:19 +0000
      Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-07-05 09:21 +0000
        Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-05 18:23 +0000
        Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-07 09:26 -0700
          Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC? Harold Stevens <wookie@aspen.localdomain> - 2025-07-07 12:37 -0500

csiph-web