On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Take it for a spin if there is still time. A friend > of mine has two old machines in that situation, but I > still consider that even Xubuntu will not run on them > old PII with 64 MB ram :( Tried to boot Slitaz, but > it failed to boot :(, DSL and Austrumi work, but I > cannot get machines to identify the network and > connect. The amount of RAM seems to be the biggest issue with running distros on older systems. There is not really a hard lower limit on CPU/ disk access speed, things will just run linearly slower ... and will get unbearably slow soon enough. But if you don't have sufficient RAM, you are done. Lots of RAM will compensate a lot (but not totally) for a slow CPU/disk access in a lot of desktop usage situations. Hard-care gaming and number crunching is a whole other world though. I have found that you need at least 256 MB of RAM. I think the stated minimum is 192 MB or something like that but any machine will run like molasses in January if it has to constantly seek to the hard-drive for everything it does every time it does it. Slow old hard-drives/CD-ROMs just exacerbate the problem. /Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
