[ltp] "Light" applications for a laptop

[Richard Neill]

>> I am currently running RedHat 9 on a 770  thinkpad (233Mhz, 96Mb 
>> ram).  Eventhough it works certain applications  are  extremely  
>> slow.  
>>
> I would consider running an earlier release on the laptop, since the 
> later releases are resource hogs. I have a 600 (300Mhz, 128M) and the 
> latest distros choke it to a crawl.

Yes, but if you install earlier ones, you have bugs which are now fixed 
and security issues (which are no longer getting updates)

Have a look here:
http://www.rule-project.org/en/
RULE: Run Up2date Linux Everywhere!