On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 10:44:09PM -0600, Anthony 'Evil Twin' wrote: > I have a Compaq Prolinea 466. I haven't figured out the processor speed > yet. But there's 16MB of memory, a 400-odd MB hard drive. And a 3-1/2" > floppy.
My firewall/router/network server at home is a similarly specced 486. > Would it be worth it for me to install Linux on the machine to run his > games? I'd have to get a CDRom, sound card and speakers. What would I > need installed on the machine? Could I make it easy enough for a 5-year > old to start it up and shut it down? I'm not sure how well it would work for running graphical games, but it would do perfectly well as a Linux machine. With the magic of X you could possibly set it up as an X terminal and let him run the games on a more powerful machine. If the games are Windows only you're probably kind of stuck. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
