I´m contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and ATA-33 hard disk controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI video adapters (video chipset? I don´t even remember) for a dual-display config. Would Fedora 11 run OK in such a system. I´m afraid Gnome might eat a lot of the cpu horsepower available, just for eye candy... Or perhaps it´s best to leave it running as-is as a museum piece with its current OS/2 4.52 (WSeB) with SMP kernel? ;-) Upgrading it to the fastest possible CPUs has circled my mind, but I don´t think it´d be worth investing a single extra penny in this system. If I remember correctly the highest CPU that could be installed on this system were 1Ghz Pentium III but with a 100Mhz FSB and 10x multiplier. However those CPUs were hard to come by even at the time (1999), as most were 133Mhz bus already. So I don´t even know how likely it´d be today to find a pair of 1Ghz 512K cache - 100 Mhz bus PIII cpus with matching Stepping ID. Perhaps I should just throw it out the window and get a $250 netbook which @ 1.6 Ghz will give me better performance than this anvil?. The thought of selling it as metal scrap by the pound / kilogram also has circled my mind... FC -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
