Re: old hardware
- From: General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 May 2007 16:43:18 GMT
On Fri, 25 May 2007 19:06:54 -0400, PrDtR wrote:
hello, i'm new to the world of linux and was wondering what would be the
best O/S for a P3 1 ghz/256meg.
PrDtR
You'll be a lot happier if you add some RAM to that system. The processor
is fast enough for any distro but you'll have trouble with 256M if you
want to run Gnome or KDE. I gave my sister a 500MHz PIII Laptop with 384M
of RAM and Fedora Core 5. It works fine for e-mail and web browsing but I
can't compile a kernel on it. With 512M of RAM you should be able to do
anything, but you'll be happier if you have more than that. If I were you
I'd up that machine to at least 768M. With 768M or 1G you can use any
distro that you want. If you have to stick with 256M then use a
lightweight Window manager instead of Gnome or KDE, any distro will do as
long as you don't install Gnome or KDE.
.
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