Combine a 2.4 GHz pc with a 500 Mhz pc?

[Dan]

Galeon is a good alternative to Firefox on Gnome when you're looking for 
responsiveness.
-Dan

Billy Tallis wrote:

>On 2/8/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 13:29 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>I can't attest to the 60 MHz, but I've got it running quite fine on a
>>collection of old PCs:
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>>566 MHz Celeron, 385056 kB RAM
>>500 MHz Celeron, 385052 kB RAM
>>450 MHz PIII, 511 MB RAM
>>260 MHz PII, 196608 kB RAM
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>>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.
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>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.
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