Options For Installing Fedora To Older Laptop

[David Curry]

David Curry wrote:

> akonstam at 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.