New to Linux - BIOS before 2000?

[suvayu ali]

On 21 May 2010 04:41, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>

Claws is awesome! Would be even better if it had Google calendar support ... :-\

> Alan

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