On 2/8/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 13:29 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > > Unless you're doing something particularly speed-related, Fedora > > should work perfectly on a 500 MHz system -- or a 60 MHz Pentium, come > > to that. > > I can't attest to the 60 MHz, but I've got it running quite fine on a > collection of old PCs: > > 566 MHz Celeron, 385056 kB RAM > 500 MHz Celeron, 385052 kB RAM > 450 MHz PIII, 511 MB RAM > 260 MHz PII, 196608 kB RAM > > The slowest one surprised me, I thought it'd be unbearable, but it's > passable, even using Gnome. It's been cobbled together out of left-over > bits to be a jukebox, so once it's going it doesn't need to played with, > and you can't tell it's slow unless you're messing with the GUI. > How responsive is the slowest one with an app like Firefox? I use a machine that is 200Mhz and 64MB and FF is very slow. I do agree that Gnome isn't as slow as one would expect, but then I usually have at least two swap disks.
