Re: old hardware
- From: B'ichela <mdalene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 22:07:00 GMT
In article <p-OdncVYyJNwE8HbnZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Scott Alfter wrote:
In article <pan.2007.05.29.16.43.17@xxxxxxxxx>,He never said how big the Hard drive on the box was. Like many
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
older laptops... they (until recently) were kinda small on most
models. The Kernal source is NOT puny either! BTW OP how BIG is your
Hard drive in your sisters Laptop?
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