So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

John Thompson john at vector.os2.dhs.org
Mon Apr 28 23:25:36 UTC 2008


On 2008-04-27, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> > What are the system requirements for the Xfce
>> > Desktop on Fedora?

>> I haven't tried it anything below a P2 with 256 MB
>> RAM. It will possibly run but be painfully slow on anything below 
>> that esp when run as a live cd.

> The reason I ask is because a friend wants to try out
> linux on an old p3 with the following specs
>
> cat /proc/cpuinfo
>
> processor       : 0
> model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)
> cpu MHz         : 451.017
> cache size      : 512 KB
> bogomips        : 903.08
>
> MemTotal:       510372 kB

I've run XFCE on my Thinkpad-240X for years now. Hardware in 450mHz 
Celeron, 192MB ram, 12GB hard drive. The / filesystem uses 3.2GB of 
space, leaving plenty of room for my own stuff.

-- 

John (john at os2.dhs.org)




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