On Tuesday 28 March 2006 06:51, Paul Howarth wrote: > > I'm just a little hesitant about putting linux 2.6 on something that > > old. I tried mandrake 10.1 (kernel 2.6.8.1) a while ago and it was > > SOOOOO slow! > > You think that's slow? Last weekend I upgraded my home file and print > server to FC5. It's an AMD K6-200 with 128MB RAM... > > I don't run a GUI on it, mind. > I have FC4 on an AMD-700 laptop running kde. With 128MB ram it was just about usable if you stuck to one task at a time. Double the ram, and it's fine now. I wouldn't push it too much, but I wouldn't mind having to use it for straightforward work. Even with 128MB ram I could play a DVD on it. Anne
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