You might want more RAM (64M?) if you want X but as far as processor you are way ahead of the minimum - way ahead... What I have at home(currently 7.3 and will be 8 in a couple weeks): P/90, 64M RAM, 1M video card (yes X works on that too!) maybe 6G of drive space and a 2X CD ROM... At 01:24 PM 10/6/2002 -0400, you wrote: >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
