> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 08:54, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: >> > >> > I'm running RH 8.0 quite happily on my K6-2 400 at work, and I'll >> > hopefully be able to push to get everyone here switched over from >> > Windows. It's not as fast as on my Athlon XP 1800+ at home, but it's >> > a big improvement over Mandrake 8.2, which I was running before the >> > Limbo beta came out. >> >> How much RAM do you have, and what desktop are you running? >> >> Oisin Feeley >> > > I've got 394Mb, and I'm running Gnome2. I've played around a little bit > with KDE, and the performance is a little bit sluggish compared to > Gnome2, but still passable. It's running on a VIA MVP4 mobo with > integrated Trident video and VIA AC97 audio. > > Moz. 1.2b with XFT support is noticeably slower than what comes in the > box, and Phoenix with XFT support enabled is also slower than the > plain-vanilla Phoenix. But that will hopefully be remedied as the > development proceeds. > > -- > Michael Knepher <limbo@bluethingy.com> Actually, this was from a very old thread discussing older hardware using Linux or Windows You will find that WinXPHome even runs well on a PII333 using things like OpenOffice etc (my 2 & 3 year olds PC is WinXPHome) It has 256MB RAM and a RIVA TNT2 64 with 32MB I can play games like CounterStrike in full 1024x768 running fine But linux with X-Windows (I think it was 7.2) really pales in performance comparison On my PIII 500 (with 384MB RAM + GeForce4 MX 440 with 64MB RAM) Linux + X-Windows runs well :-) So somewhere between the two Linux + X-Windows sux IMHO. And I bet that should read 384MB RAM :-) - not 394 :-) -- -Cheers -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
