On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 13:41 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:22:13PM -0600, Jerone Young wrote: > > anything Pentium class and up now. I can tell you though that running > > KDE or Gnome on a Pentium 200 with 128mb Ram is pure torture (never > > had a chance to try Xfce though, I threw those boxes out). Only thing > > XFce + abiword is eminently usable in 64-128Mb. > > > they are good for now for basic server side services stuff (apache , > > samba, etc) nowaday. > > And unlike a PIV also rather cheap to run of course. Admittedly I mostly > keep my IDT Winchip box to annoy Dave Jones. To get yum to be happier on low-mem machines, especially for updates try: yum --disablerepo=base update it will not import the base package set which drops the memory usage a bunch. -sv
