On 2/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim</b> <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 13:29 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:<br>> Unless you're doing something particularly speed-related, Fedora<br>> should work perfectly on a 500 MHz system -- or a 60 MHz Pentium, come<br>> to that.
<br><br>I can't attest to the 60 MHz, but I've got it running quite fine on a<br>collection of old PCs:<br><br>566 MHz Celeron, 385056 kB RAM<br>500 MHz Celeron, 385052 kB RAM<br>450 MHz PIII, 511 MB RAM<br>260 MHz PII, 196608 kB RAM
<br><br>The slowest one surprised me, I thought it'd be unbearable, but it's<br>passable, even using Gnome. It's been cobbled together out of left-over<br>bits to be a jukebox, so once it's going it doesn't need to played with,
<br>and you can't tell it's slow unless you're messing with the GUI.<br><br>To be honest, I prefer the older PCs; they don't run as hot and don't<br>need as much noisy cooling as the current monsters. My 500 MHz one only
<br>has one, very quiet, fan in the box.<br><br>I've got a friend who's used slower PCs, but he uses a light-weight<br>window manager.<br><br></blockquote></div>Can you by chance remember if FC4 comes with XFCE on the CD Roms?
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.