That's a joke, right? "just fine" must be an awfully bloated program. With careful package selection, I can run Debian Sarge on a 133 MHz P1 with 24MB of RAM. My main computer is a 233MHz PII laptop with 196MB of RAM and Sarge runs it well. I write "complex" technical papers with KWord and can run Open Office if needed. Gnumeric does spreadsheets, grace does publish quality graphs, inkscape, gimp and friends do excellent illustrations and image manipulation. At the same time, Konqueror and Kontact provide first class browsing, email and personal information management. As of the last SIG, it also does network, sftp and m3u, aware music playing through noatum and movie play by xine or xanim. Every now and then, I get to compile a little fortran on it. I can run almost all of these applications at the same time using the Enlightenment window manager with 18 screens from on 3 virtual desktops. 70MB Power Points in Open Office are slow, but the rest will run without skipping my music much. My 1.4GHz Athlon is faster and I'll actually notice when encoding music and playing games. What amazing thing does "just fine" provide XP users, a spell check?
On Friday 05 August 2005 11:07 am, Andrew Baudouin wrote: > XP runs just fine on a P3-850 w/256MB Ram.
