So New I have an Umbillical Cord

[Nick]

I'm not overly worried by the speed. Like I said the box was given to 
me free, so the reason for me looking at linux was two fold, one I've 
heard really good things about it and wanted to play around, and two 
I'm interested in getting the thing  doing something useful without 
having to upgrade it, which was why I thought it might be worth trying.

Is the general consensus then that an upgraded 9600 to G3 (200/300mhz) 
with a 4gb hard drive and 96mb won't run it at all except on a command 
line basis?

Your help is greatly appreciated, thanks.


On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 02:10 AM, Chuck Coleman wrote:

> On 2/21/03 5:33 PM, "Nick" <email@ilikepaperandpens.com> wrote:
>
>> HD is ok i think, 500mb above the minimum and i can get it to load KDE
>> using the failsafe mode but not anything else and you can't use it in
>> that state because of the poor res.
>>
>> Memory might be a problem as its only got 96mb. But I thought linux 
>> was
>> able to work on older machines with lower specs?
>
> You will need at least 3GB of HD space especially if you want to run 
> KDE. I
> have found it will run on less bet not nearly as efficient or as fast. 
> I use
> 5GB and it works great.
>
> I also have 512MB of RAM on my 8600 that makes use of the swap disk a 
> rare
> occurrence. It is also much faster than when I ran it on 128MB.
>
> Chuck
>
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