Is Fedora 6 fit in IBM A21 notebook?

[frank wang]

My impression is that Linux requires less hardware resources than
window XP. I could run window XP on this machine. Am I right?

I want to get rid of the window xp on this machine since window xp
keeps updates, virus, worms, and it puts a lot of files into
differenct places and eventually slowdonw the system.

Thanks

frank

On 4/3/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 13:02 -0700, frank wang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a IBM A21p notebook with Pentium III 850 Mhz CPU and 512 RAM. I
> > want to install Linux on it. Is Fedora 6 a goog choice for this? or
> > other release of Linux?
>
> 512M is rather tight for FC6.  850MHz and 512M is not really a good fit
> for running in GUI mode in most Linux distros.  You might try something
> like "TinyLinux" or one of the other mini distros.  Here's a good link:
>
> http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Mini_Distributions/
>
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