Fernando Cassia wrote:
2009/6/23 Alan Evans <ame.fedora@xxxxxxxxx>:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Fernando Cassia<fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I惴 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愒 even remember) for a
dual-display config.
Would Fedora 11 run OK in such a system. I惴 afraid Gnome might eat a
lot of the cpu horsepower available, just for eye candy...
I have an old laptop that dreams of specs like that. It runs GNOME on
F11 just fine.
(Single-core Pentium III, 750MHz, 384MB RAM, Blah video hardware.)
All PIIIs are single cores, AFAIK. Mine is dual in the sense of having
two CPUs, including heatsink. You know, good ole "SMP" before the
multicore craze started.
Good to know F11 runs OK. I wasn´t even sure it included i586 kernels.
PIII is recent. Not clear if it would run on PentiumPro, although I don't see
why not. PPro had full speed cache, P-II had half speed, and I think there was
some other difference regarding running 16 bit MS-DOS programs, but I can't
remember what it was. My original dual-PPro ran Xenix-386 IIRC, and
compatibility with anything 16 bit was irrelevant.
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the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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