Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straightanswer please

2000-12-31 Thread Paul
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Herman Christiani wrote: David and Alicia Would mandrake run on a p60, 540 mb hd, ? Hi, Not likely, Mandrake needs a Pentium to run well, you are better off with something like Red Hat 5.2 for this machine. Hello Herman, P60 stands for Pentium 60. So it would work.

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straightanswer please

2000-12-31 Thread Herman Christiani
Hi Paul, David and Alicia, The answer is yes and no, the p60 is a pentium, but from the p133 or p166 onwards(not fully sure about this) they changed the internal architecture of the cpu, also a p60 is not really more powerfull then let say a 486DX100. Have a happy New Year, Herman Paul wrote: