On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 03:42 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Robert L Cochran wrote: > > > My Sony Vaio PCG-F350 laptop (Pentium II 364 MHz, 192 Mb RAM) is running > > out of hard drive space. The machine is running Fedora Core 2. It is > > still using the original 6 Gb hard drive, and has 491 Mb of free space > > left. I'd love a new machine, but I'm loathe to spend the money right > > now, especially as one of my kids will soon need to gear up for > > university. I figure I can just install a bigger hard drive on the > > machine. > > > > I am thinking of simply popping in the new hard drive and then > > installing Fedora Core 3 to it. Does that sound like a good option -- or > > will Core 3 grind to a halt? It doesn't have much memory. But the new > > drive will have faster rotational speed plus an 8 Mb buffer, so that > > might help a little bit. Or should I stick with Fedora Core 2, which I > > already know runs slowly, but it does run. I have a Buffalo wireless PC > > card that I can use with this baby for my internet connection. > > I don't think you will have any problem installing FC-3 > if you put in a new disk. > 192MB RAM is plenty for this purpose. > > Also I didn't notice FC-3 was any slower than FC-2; > Has someone said it is? > > I'm running FC-3 now on a Sony C1VFK Picturebook with 128MB RAM. > (It used to have 256MB, but the extra memory has failed.) > This has a Crusoe 660MHz processor. > > I'm also running FC-3 on a 300MHz Pentium II desktop with 128MB RAM. > I had no problem installing FC-3, but I must admit X is rather slow. > > Both machines have plenty of disk-space. > (I installed a 60GB drive in my Picturebook.) ---- I generally got the impression that much of the 'reported slowness' of FC-3 related to the lack of pre-linking for the oft-used programs such as openoffice and firefox. But I am not knowledgeable about these things. Craig
