Terry Duell wrote:
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:12:43 +1100, Jason White<jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote: [snip]
I've read good reports about Arch Linux, but I haven't tried it.
If you're concerned about performance, choose a distribution that lets you install a minimal operating system and then add packages to it. For example, Debian can be installed this way.
Yes, that would be a good approach. I have been looking at Mint and Mint-Debian, but really haven't spent enough time with any of them thus far.
I run mint9-lxde on an old m20 and it runs OK on that, gnome is a bit heavy. ;-) But on the old benq I rolled my own Debian install using blackbox as the WM and on the CF it is lightning fast, even on that old platform. The only problem is needing to learn/remember some less often used commands. cheers.