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 Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:47 pm
I intend to put a bit of effort(and money) Into making the best socket 7 system I can.
I need to replace the current motherboard in my system, replace the AMD K6-2 with a AMD K6-3(K6-III+ maybe?) and get the best videocard for the system I can, which will probably be a PCI based card, but -could- be a AGP card(depending on which motherboard I decide to get). I'll stick with my crappy 20 gig drive for it, though. And to top it off, I'll run linux on it. I'm thinking fedora, or I could just put some time in and get slackware or gentoo running on it, as I can't help but think that those 2 would further improve the performance of the system.
This is a year long project, and suggestions..or any form of help is always wanted.
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:46 pm
I don't know about Socket 7 systems, but I am surprised no one here had replied to your post
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:08 am
Oh wow, I'm answering one year after OP confused
I once managed to install a really stripped-down version of Debian in a similar computer. It was a Pentium III machine we had gathering dust over there, and we wanted to give it to my grandpas so they could have their basic internets stuff. I first tried to install XP, but the computer was so slow it could hardly run a resident antivirus which is a must in XP. Windows 2000, by experience, would run pretty much the same as a stripped-down XP, so I decided to install Debian with Fluxbox as the default desktop manager. This was also the first time I installed this distro ^^
Installation was quite smooth, which I was quite pleased with because I was once told it was difficult (it ended up being a Fedora-style assistant, and the only hard part was partitioning which is something I already know by heart), and the resulting computer was quite fast and usable for a 2001 bucket biggrin
Now, I know some distros can be even more minimalistic, but Debian was for me a good first choice. Old hardware means much better support, and Debian is quite flexible with which packages you want to install. If you really really want to get full performance try Gentoo instead. Compiling the whole damn thing with optimizations will be a ******** b***h, yeah, but it's the best way to get this thing done sweatdrop
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