Re: old hardware
- From: scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Scott Alfter)
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:37:01 -0500
In article <pan.2007.05.29.16.43.17@xxxxxxxxx>,
General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Something's wrong with your config if you can't build a kernel in 256 MB. I
set up Gentoo on a 450-MHz K6-III recently (equipped with 256 MB, IIRC),
and it had no trouble compiling not just the kernel, but KDE, Firefox,
Thunderbird, and nearly everything else. It took a bit longer than it
would've on newer hardware (days instead of hours), but it never conked out.
Did you have some swap space configured?
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