On Jul 27, 5:04 pm, Jim Richardson <warl...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:32:05 -0700,
> Tom Shelton <tom_shel...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Jul 27, 10:22 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> >> ____/ Linux Newb on Friday 27 July 2007 17:06 : \____
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> >> > I'm looking for a user-friendly version of Linux that'll run well on PC
> >> > with a 750MHz Intel Pentium III, 384MB of RAM and a S3 Savage4 display
> >> > adapter.
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> >> > Any suggestions?
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> >> > Thanks a lot!
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> >> The CPU seems to be your weak spot. What tasks will you run?
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> > While not user friendly, I'm very happy with the preformance of Gentoo
> > 2007 on a little 1GHz PIII I just picked up for $20. I added 256MB
> > RAM, so I am running on 512MB - but, it seems perfeclty acceptable.
> > I've got KDE and XFCE both on there. XFCE, seems to work a little
> > better when I run remote xsessions from my Vista box using cygwin/X
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> > Tom Shelton
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> RAM is the biggie, you can live with a "slower" (1 GHz is slow, that's
> just weird :) processor if you have plenty of RAM. The reverse is not so
> nice :)
Very true... I got another box just like it at the same time for the
same amount, except that it is a 750MHz PIII. It already has 512MB in
it, so I'm interested to see how things run on it.... Though, I
probably will only install fluxbox and xfce on that one.
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Tom Shelton
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