On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:06:32AM -0400, J. Van Lierde wrote: > John Moore wrote: > > >I'm a total Linux newbie who'd like to install Linux on my really old > >PC. It has 64MB of RAM and a 4GB hard disk. The installation > >documentation I've read at debian.org seems to indicate that this is > >sufficient. Is that right? Thanks. > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >Don?t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! > >http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ > > > > > I've run sarge with icewm on a 200Mhz Pentium with 64MB and found it > barely usable, the disk was paging constantly. If you want to use your > mouse, I think you have to pick your window manager (a lot of posters > seem to like flux box) and apps for their size (i.e. forget about > firefox, openoffice etc.) You want to spend some time mining the > debian-user archive, this query comes up regularly. > > On the other hand, it runs real sweet with regular terminal sessions. > For that reason, I rationized not throwing it out. It might be useful as > a small server someday.
I'm using a 48MB 100MHz Pentium as a file server, and its performance is adequate. I also use X on it, with icewm, but avoid *any* graphical user-interfacing or web-wandering on it, because the graphics is definitely too slow. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
