On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Jonatan Dimotta <jonid...@gmail.com> wrote: > However, not only is the kernel, if not the services "as a person with a > pentium 3 and with just a decent video card you can install any of the > major current distributions taking up the bluetooth services enabled by > default? With this project by analyzing the PC before downloading the > operating system can eliminate a lot of programs and unnecessary services, > such as having bluetooth service enabled by default on a pentium 3 and / or > have the webcam working without being hours starting head trying to find > drivers for it. It could clarify the list of drivers and would universally > sharable for all distributions.
I am writing this message on a Pentium-M laptop - which is essentially a 1.7GHz version of the Pentium-3 core. My mail server is a Xen DomU on a Celeron 2.4GHz. The overall capacity of the system is less than some of the SMP P3 systems I used to run when a 1.3GHz P3 was a good server CPU. The chipset of most Desktop P3 systems will limit you to 512M of RAM. This is the biggest limit on a P3. I don't think that there are many things that you can't do with a typical P3 system that has been upgraded fully. There are some things that can be improved, desktop environments tend to drag in some daemons that really should be optional - particularly if you have the installation of "recommends" enabled (the default). But I don't think we need to change anything significantly unless we want to get decent performance on a system with less than 128M of RAM - which is considerably less than is typical of a P3. -- russ...@coker.com.au http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Main Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
