Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

[Alan Evans <ame fedora gmail com>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Fernando Cassia<fcassia gmail com> wrote:
> I惴 contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a
> dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and
> ATA-33 hard disk controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI
> video adapters (video chipset? I don�� even remember) for a
> dual-display config.
>
> Would Fedora 11 run OK in such a system. I惴 afraid Gnome might eat a
> lot of the cpu horsepower available, just for eye candy...

I have an old laptop that dreams of specs like that. It runs GNOME on
F11 just fine.

(Single-core Pentium III, 750MHz, 384MB RAM, Blah video hardware.)