Matthew Zimmerman wrote: > Yeah, it seems that the most critical issue is the amount of memory, > especially running XFree86 + GNOME or KDE. I have an old Celeron 500 MHz, > 10 GB disk, integrated (i810) audio and video, and the only thing I > had to do to get it running FC1 quite useably was upgrading the memory > to 192 MB (from 64 MB). There's a US$77 Dell computer with similar specs on ComputerGeeks.com right now. It has a 500MHz Intel Celeron and comes with 128MB RAM and a 6GB hard drive. It can hold 512MB max RAM and (after a BIOS update, still available at Dell) you could put in a larger hard drive. At $77 for the computer, each 256MB RAM stick costs roughly as much as the machine. I'm considering buying one, maxing out the RAM and loading FC1 on it for a relative of mine. The weakest part of that machine is its lack of AGP port and weak video hardware (with the built-in video hardware you only get 24-bit color at 800x600). Adding some older PCI videocard should fix the video problems and cost roughly $20 more. It has built-in sound hardware and a built-in NIC too. I hope these work well with FC1. I searched around and found a retailer who will sell a 1.1GHz Pentium III CPU replacement that is said to be a drop-in replacement for the Celeron. If anyone has tried these machines, I'd appreciate an e-mail on how well they work with any recent GNU/Linux distribution.
