Upgrade with little RAM

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 08/21/2010 01:02 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I have a Thinkpad T23 with 512MB RAM,
> which I seldom use.
> (It is kept in a holiday location.)
>
> It is currently running Fedora-10,
> which probably shows when it was last used.
> I tried installing Fedora-13 from the KDE Live CD,
> and was a bit surprised to find that
> it started up OK, but then just hung.
>
> Is this likely to be just shortage of RAM?

Well, Fedora 13 works quite well on my old Pentium III w/ 512MB RAM.

However, I am using GNOME instead of KDE, which might make a difference.

Ralf