Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames 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> 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 On 05 Jul 2025 09:21:37 GMT St=E9phane CARPENTIER 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 =20 >=20 > 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.)