On Tuesday 19 December 2006 16:41, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 06:42, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On 18-Dec-06, at 11:26 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > > > I've had a minimal box on Celeron 500 MHz albeit with much more > > > RAM (192 MB). It used to run KDE/Gnome a little slowly and XFCe > > > was quite good. Blackbox was fast as a storm. > > > > for the last three years i have been comfortably running mandrake > > 10 on a celeron 400 with 96 mb ram and 4 gb harddisk. Including > > Oo, zope, apache, postgresql and what have you. On Kde. Little > > slow to load Oo, but ok after it loads > > Pentium 1 166MHz MMX. 64MB RAM. 1G of HDD. OS Debian Sarge 3.1. > Runs everything just fine. Haven't tried running X but from the > looks of it, it should run GNOME without much lag.
Was running woody on a 486 66 mhz 16 mb. No X rated stuff. Later increased ram to 24MB. X crawled at glacial speed.Should try out microwindows. I still have the mobo for som isa ice cards. unfortunately the ide card pins are black. So i will have to setup nfsboot on ne2000 isa with bootrom or floppy. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
