Well I just put slack8.1 on a pentium 75 or is it 100 and it runs fine. And that's a "old" machine, it does have pci slots though. Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buddy Brannan" <davros@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 1:24 PM Subject: Re: system requirements for red hat 8.0 > Uhh. If you can't get GNU/Linux running on that...I'll eat my > hat. Which I won't have to do...I like my hat...No problem with that > hardware. > > 200/300MHz processors are plenty fast enough. You can get a GNU/Linux > system on a 386...but...any ol' Pentium will do nicely. 32MB is nice, > 64MB is nicer, and depending on how creative you wanna be, you can get > a system into a fairly small space...but any system with a P2 or P3 > likely has at least a couple gig HDD...plenty of room. I believe > official spec still says at least a 386, at least 8MB RAM (may require > 16MB these day)...drive space is pretty variable depending on what you > want. Still, with the hardware you propose, you ought not have any > problems. > > BTW, don't knock those "old" systems. ... Both desktops here are "old" > (a P2/450...or is it a P3/450? Anyway) and a AMD K6-2/350. Laptop is > the newest and fastest machine I own...I actually also have a P133 I > want to put GNU/Linux on, but not sure about the four-disc changer I > have in it. > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV/3 | "And if the ground yawned, > Phone: (814) 455-7333 | I'd step to the side and say, > Email: davros at ycardz.com | "Hey ground! I'm nobody's lunch!" > http://www.ycardz.com/ | --Eddie From Ohio > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
