Re: [newbie] What would be an ideal (but reasonable) LM7.2 desktop platform

2001-02-20 Thread Tim Holmes
I have two Linux boxes on my network here at home. Both are P2-400's and the only real difference is RAM. One machine has 256 MG the other 128. But they both run pretty damn fast! Now there are somethings that I've noticed, heard, and/or experimented with, and that's separate hard drives for c

Re: [newbie] What would be an ideal (but reasonable) LM7.2 desktop platform

2001-02-16 Thread Dave Sherman
LM 7.2 runs just fine on my ThinkPad laptop, 366 Celeron with 64 MB of memory. If you are having sluggish performance, you might look into disabling some services which you rarely or never use, possibly remove some fonts or have them load dynamically rather than automatically at boot, etc. Al

RE: [newbie] What would be an ideal (but reasonable) LM7.2 desktop platform

2001-02-16 Thread Mark Johnson
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Saturday, 17 February 2001 3:21 AM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] What would be an ideal (but reasonable) LM7.2 desktop platform Just wondering, without spendning a fortune what would be the ideal platform for running LM 7.2

RE: [newbie] What would be an ideal (but reasonable) LM7.2 desktop platform

2001-02-16 Thread Franki
PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Saturday, 17 February 2001 3:21 AM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] What would be an ideal (but reasonable) LM7.2 desktop platform Just wondering, without spendning a fortune what would be the ideal platform for running LM 7.2 (KDE/GNOME)? I ask

[newbie] What would be an ideal (but reasonable) LM7.2 desktop platform

2001-02-16 Thread Mark Johnson
Just wondering, without spendning a fortune what would be the ideal platform for running LM 7.2 (KDE/GNOME)? I ask this because I'm running 7.2 on a K6-200/128MB and on a P400/256MB and they are both sluggish. How much machine to I need to run a typical installation of 7.2, I was planning on upg