In principle about the minimum is a Pentium 2 500MHz processor, with 512MB of RAM, but your mileage may vary.
gOS 3.0 will also come out in a "lightweight" version, that will run on lighter hardware. See the technical Faq. p.s. I have a room full of old home-computers, and a 8086 system is "high-end" compared to those, Most systems I have have less than 32K of RAM, and you can do a lot with those. One system uses a 1MHz 6502 8- bit system, with 4K of ROM and 1K of RAM, six 7-segment displays as "output", and a 20-key keypad as input. Learned (paper assisted) assembly language programming on that system. :-) On 12 sep, 02:41, "Doug Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How old of a version of the x86 can we use. I've got a warehouse full of > them. I even know where there's an 8086. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Graham Todd > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: GOS on powerpc based PowerMac? > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:40:51 -0700 (PDT) > scurock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a Apple PowerMac G4 with 40G hard drive and 1 G memory. I > > would like to know whether I can install GOS on it. The CPU is powerpc > > based. > > This has come up a few times before. > > There is not currently a PPC version of gOS: it runs only on > machines with an x86 architecture. I say "currently" because the Linux > distribution gOS is built upon (Ubuntu) has some unofficial PPC builds, > and it is not clear whether any of these will be made as a base to > build an unofficial gOS PPC version. > > Currently, Ubuntu has a LTS (Long Term Support) version in > Ubuntu 8.04 without a PPC version but the previous LTS version, > (Ubuntu 6.06) did have official support and had an official PPC > version. As I have said before, IMHO, gOS is Ubuntu with impressive > eye candy, so if you can bear the GNOME interface, then an outdated > version of Ubuntu or the current version of Debian (which does have an > up-to-date PPC version) but the full range of PPC Linux distributions is > at:http://penguinppc.org/about/distributions.php > > This site is worth investigating for all readers interested in Linux on > the PowerPC architecture as its the home of the Linux PowerPC Project. > > HTH > > -- > Graham Todd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
