Options For Installing Fedora To Older Laptop

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sun Jan 30 17:46:41 UTC 2005


On Sunday 30 January 2005 14:26, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

> 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.

Actually, X is bearable, and so is Firefox,
on 128MB RAM which I have in the laptop I'm using now,
but OpenOffice is impossible.


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