--- Andrew Smith <rhml2@k1k2.com> wrote: > Actually, this was from a very old thread discussing > older hardware > using Linux or Windows I think RH has improved a little on older HW since that thread started, which I believe was on the 7.2 list IIRC. > > 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. Right now (not this machine) but one of my other machines, I have RH 8.0 installed on a regular pentium 200 MHz with 64MB RAM and a 4MB video card, and it runs fairly fast.... until I fire up X-windows. I have tweaked quite a few X settings and I have gotten a considerable performance boost. I don't think it's as fast as it could be, but it is considerably faster when compared to how 7.2 used to run. X as a whole fires up faster, but some of the newer applications (Openoffice for example) take a minute or two to start. I think this is more the applications than X-windows itself. ===== Kevin C. McConnell --RHCE-- <Red Hat Certified Engineer> __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
