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On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:32:05 -0700,
Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jul 27, 10:22 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> ____/ Linux Newb on Friday 27 July 2007 17:06 : \____
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> > Any suggestions?
>>
>> > Thanks a lot!
>>
>> The CPU seems to be your weak spot. What tasks will you run?
>>
>
> 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
>
> --
> Tom Shelton
>
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 :)
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
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