On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 21:15, Robert L Cochran 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 depends a lot on the apps you're using. There's no definite answer in general. I do have a PII/233 96MB RAM laptop, on which the default RH environment is waaay too slow. One thing i did was to replace Gnome with Fluxbox. Another one was to boot in runlevel 3 and use X only when needed. I also used prelink to accelerate the apps. Also, stripping all the binaries helps. Another one: compile the critical apps with higher gcc optimizations (but be careful to not "overoptimize" them). Also, use memory-saving apps, such as Galeon or Firebird instead of Mozilla, AbiWord instead of OO Writer, Gnumeric instead of OO Calc, etc. And of course, the basics: don't install what you don't need, turn off all unnecessary services, etc. That being said, i quit using Red Hat on that system. I installed Gentoo :-) and it seems like that's a better choice on that particular machine. -- Florin Andrei "Never send a human to do a machine's job." - Agent Smith
