Another Newbie Question
Marvin [GodfatherofSoul] Bellamy
mbellamy at kc.rr.com
Tue Oct 29 21:17:44 CST 2002
I've run RedHat 7 and Mandrake 8 on a 200Mhz Pentium with a <2GB hard
drive. On the older machines, you just need to make sure you've got
RAM. I had 128MB and KDE ran just fine.
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jeremy Fowler" <jfowler at westrope.com>
>
>>>What's the lowest level of hardware YOU have actually USED XWindows on?
>>>
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>>Well, me personally? PII 350 w/ 64MB ram...
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>I've had it run satisfactorily on a PII 400, weven with KDE. I seem to
>recall that I tried it on a P 166 and didn't have much fun, and that was
>pre-Gnome/KDE.
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>I had some Compaq P120's and P200's with imbedded graphics adapters that I
>tried several installers on about a year ago and they all barfed when they
>tried to go graphical, which I thought did not bode well for XWindows.
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