Hi Terry
I will not get to techo .. since I am not .... but I have a machine running FC3 ... older Dell PII 400 - 192ram. that runs gnome just fine... it is a little slow at times.. but it is better than XP.
The past four years I have been served quite nicely by a Pentium 233. It has a pair of IDE drives set up with RAID 1. Its a neat little box that cost me almost nothing and continues to do good service. Just a little short of disk space as it can only address about 30 gigs or so.
Its gratifying what you can achieve with throw-away hardware sometimes.
Regards, Langdon