On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 04:25:49PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 11:40 -0500, Hal Levy wrote: > > Sorry- I am trying again I have not used any flavour of linux in > > more years than I care to even think about. I decided to give it a go > > with Fedora Core 6. I installed on a older Pentium 2 MMX box. The > > install went smoothly and I was up an running in a short time. > > Shortly after install I was notified about 140 some-odd updates that > > were availible and told the system to install them. > I am not as optomistic as the other posters. You did not tell us how > much RAM you have nor the speed of your processor but my experience with > a P3 500 MHz processor and 384 Meg of ram has not been stellar. > > My experience is that FC6 is uniquely unsuited for older processors with > older cards. I have not been able to trace down exactly why this is true > but in my case , at least, it is true. So your problems in getting your > system up and running does. not surprise me. > > My advice is to use an earlier version of Fedora is you want to stick > with this computer. ...or use another distribution, such as Slackware, that isn't as top-heavy as Fedora core. Kurt -- On the road, ZIPPY is a pinhead without a purpose, but never without a POINT.
