Re: Red Hat On Yesterday's Hardware

["Andrew Smith" <rhml2 k1k2 com>]

Robert L Cochran said:
> I see from the release notes for Red Hat 9 that the minimum CPU is a
> Pentium class and the minumum memory is 64 Mb, rock bottom.
>
> My question is, what is the lowest-end system that one can get
> realistically decent graphics performance from with Red Hat 9? Including
> internetting and office management tasks? A Pentium 90? Pentium 66? How
> low can I go before the hardware chokes the OS performance-wise?
>
> Thanks

grepping through years of imap folders for RH ... :-)

... last time I discussed anything like this I said 7.2, 7.3
and 8.0

On a PII333 with 128MB RAM & TNT2 - X was too slow.

I just hate it when you can type in OpenOffice faster than
the computer can display it ...

The PII333 runs XPHome with OpenOffice and performs well
- also can play stuff like DoD, QuakeIII and CS on it very well

On a PIII500 with 256MB RAM & TNT2 - X was good.

Remember - X is the basis behind it all and X is ...
a 'tad' slow :-)
It was designed by a committee - not designed to be fast

-- 
-Cheers
-Andrew

MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!