> Thanks James, before I emailed the list I checked cpuinfo, the > information is not as clear as I had hoped. My guess is I am running > close to the absolute usable minimum hardware set up which is older than > he one in question and the issues involved are more than a generic P3 > FC6 issue below is the information from my cpuinfo file. I suspect that VIA @733 MHz is quite usable for most things. Processor speed is about P3 400-500 (lower for heavy FPU better for integer). I actually have a few of them mostly running as my routers/firewalls and they've paid for themselves in electricity bill reductions. The big thing you want is *RAM*. 256MB ought to be enough to run OK, 512MB is better. Alternatively shoot the heavyweight gnome desktop stuff and install the Xfce packages which will run well on such a box, and sylpheed or sylpheed-claws instead of evolution for email. Alan
