Combine a 2.4 GHz pc with a 500 Mhz pc?

[Billy Tallis]

On 2/8/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 13:29 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > Unless you're doing something particularly speed-related, Fedora
> > should work perfectly on a 500 MHz system -- or a 60 MHz Pentium, come
> > to that.
>
> I can't attest to the 60 MHz, but I've got it running quite fine on a
> collection of old PCs:
>
> 566 MHz Celeron, 385056 kB RAM
> 500 MHz Celeron, 385052 kB RAM
> 450 MHz PIII, 511 MB RAM
> 260 MHz PII, 196608 kB RAM
>
> The slowest one surprised me, I thought it'd be unbearable, but it's
> passable, even using Gnome.  It's been cobbled together out of left-over
> bits to be a jukebox, so once it's going it doesn't need to played with,
> and you can't tell it's slow unless you're messing with the GUI.
>

How responsive is the slowest one with an app like Firefox? I use a
machine that is 200Mhz and 64MB and FF is very slow.  I do agree that
Gnome isn't as slow as one would expect, but then I usually have at
least two swap disks.