David Curry wrote:
akonstam(a)trinity.edu wrote:
>> I don't think you will have any problem installing FC-3
>> if you put in a new disk.
>> 192MB RAM is plenty for this purpose.
>>
>> Also I didn't notice FC-3 was any slower than FC-2;
>> Has someone said it is?
>>
>> I'm running FC-3 now on a Sony C1VFK Picturebook with 128MB RAM.
>> (It used to have 256MB, but the extra memory has failed.)
>> This has a Crusoe 660MHz processor.
>>
>> I'm also running FC-3 on a 300MHz Pentium II desktop with 128MB RAM.
>> I had no problem installing FC-3, but I must admit X is rather slow.
>>
>> Both machines have plenty of disk-space.
>> (I installed a 60GB drive in my Picturebook.)
>>
>>
>
> I don't know if FC3 is slower than FC-2 but they are both pretty slow
> on a 128M RAM machine. X is certainly slow. But how about Open Office,
> and firefox speed of opening. etc, etc, and so forth. The swapping
> alone can torment you endlessly.
>
>
Use of XFce instead of Gnome or KDE may help some.
Another thought occurred. I believe the Fedora Legacy Project supports
RedHat Linux 7.x which may be more suitable for older machines.