New to Linux - BIOS before 2000?

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri May 21 11:41:23 UTC 2010


On Fri, 21 May 2010 19:00:10 +0930
Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 11:20 -0700, Mercury Rising wrote:
> > it give me an error saying my BIOS was 1997 and I needed a a 2000 BIOS
> > or better.  The machine has a Pentium 3 with 550 MHz CPU with over 700
> > Megs memory but a small hard drive of just 10 Gigs
> 
> To be honest, I think the CPU slowness, perhaps the RAM, and drive size
> are probably going to be a big problem, too.
> 
> I've got servers with similar specs, and they run fine.  But a for a
> workstation generating a video display, low specced computers get a bit
> painfully slow.

You want plenty of RAM and a sensible desktop. There are several ways to
run Linux on small platforms and removing all the crud some of the
desktop people have written is an enormous improvement.

XFCE + claws is snappy on old machines.

Alan


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