On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 03:42 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Robert L Cochran wrote:
My Sony Vaio PCG-F350 laptop (Pentium II 364 MHz, 192 Mb RAM) is running out of hard drive space. The machine is running Fedora Core 2. It is still using the original 6 Gb hard drive, and has 491 Mb of free space left. I'd love a new machine, but I'm loathe to spend the money right now, especially as one of my kids will soon need to gear up for university. I figure I can just install a bigger hard drive on the machine.
I am thinking of simply popping in the new hard drive and then installing Fedora Core 3 to it. Does that sound like a good option -- or will Core 3 grind to a halt? It doesn't have much memory. But the new drive will have faster rotational speed plus an 8 Mb buffer, so that might help a little bit. Or should I stick with Fedora Core 2, which I already know runs slowly, but it does run. I have a Buffalo wireless PC card that I can use with this baby for my internet connection.
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 generally got the impression that much of the 'reported slowness' of FC-3 related to the lack of pre-linking for the oft-used programs such as openoffice and firefox.
But I am not knowledgeable about these things.
Craig