I managed to get it installed OK on an EPIA 5000 as a workstation, though I think the 32mb memory chip I used on the install will be replaced rather quickly :-). (wading through treacle in a deepsea divers suit c/w with lead boots sort of scenario) Ultimately it's just going to process mail so this was a trial run to see if everything worked. It did. The price has been pretty good too £80 and counting so far.. Work stuff was working on low end pentiums up until this year. Memory was the key with those. I listened to Alan Cox last week at the linuxuser expo. There was a show of hands for obsolete equipment still being used. This ranged from the proprietary mitsumi CD card to a 3com501 NIC. Amidst much laughter the answer was 3com regretted making them so reliable, it's a 15 year old card. In all seriousness though he said that it would still be possible to get stuff to work with the upcoming 2.6 kernel you just have to ask for help. I think the view was pretty fair and progress has to go on in a realistic manner for existing and used old hardware and current hardware. Bryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "antonio" <anto.montagnani@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 8:10 AM Subject: Re: Red Hat On Yesterday's Hardware > Robert L Cochran wrote: > > >Thanks a lot Marco. I'll give this a lot of attention. > > > >Bob > > > > > >On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 00:49, M. Fioretti wrote: > > > > > >>On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 00:15:23 at 12:15:23AM -0400, Robert L Cochran (cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I see from the release notes for Red Hat 9 that the minimum CPU is a > >>>Pentium class and the minumum memory is 64 Mb, rock bottom. > >>> > >>>My question is, what is the lowest-end system that one can get > >>>realistically decent graphics performance from with Red Hat 9? Including > >>>internetting and office management tasks? A Pentium 90? Pentium 66? How > >>>low can I go before the hardware chokes the OS performance-wise? > >>> > >>> > >>It strongly depends from what you exactly mean by " internetting and > >>office management tasks". > >> > >>If you mean online gaming, or accepting those sites where even the > >>"Contact Us" page is done in Flash, or using OpenOffice.org, then you > >>need a relatively powerful machine regardless of the operating system. > >> > >>Otherwise, have a look at > >> > >> http://www.rule-project.org/en/screenshots.php > >> > >>Ciao, > >> Marco Fioretti > >> > >>-- > >>Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it > >>Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ > >> > >>I never let my schooling get in the way of my education. -- Mark Twain > >> > >> > I am running RH9 with OpenOffice application and Internet/Mail (Mozilla > 1.4 RC1) application on PII 233 MHz with 320 Mb of RAM and on a Celeron > 400 with 256 Mb of Ram with good operability and using Gnome (and they > both work also as routers...). > Java and Flash of course stress the machines....but you can accept it if > you are short of money... ;-) > Of course no games.....also Qcad is running at acceptable speed. > Less power need than for same application under Windows XP, this is my > experience. > > Antonio > > -- > > > ============================================== > Written with Mozilla 1.4RC1 on Linux RedHat 9 > ============================================== > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list >
