On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:19:54PM +0100, David Jansen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:58:57PM -0500, Alexander Grekhov wrote: > > > 2) Hardware specs. To be honest, I was a little stunned by the hardware > > > requirements to run Fedora (memory / processor / hard drive space). > > > Obviously I can't pick up an old P166 at a swap meet and expect it to > > > work. What are the reasonable specs for a PC to run Linux? Or is there > > > a URL with this info? > > > > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/ > > Before upgrading any important work or personal machines, I gave FC1 a > try on an old PII 350MHz with only 64 MB memory. It works, including > graphical install, graphical boot and of course the gnome desktop. So > even when your machine is quite a bit below the listed recommendations > or minimums, running FC1 is possible. Slower due to swapping perhaps, > but working. > Not that I expected anything less based on previous Linux experiences :) > > David Much slower. My PII is 400 MHz. Opening Open-anything is excruciating. Mozilla takes over a minute the first time to come up. I would not advise this for people who want to stay sane. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
