If you have enough RAM (512 MB should be plenty, about 320MB (256+64) Seems to be minimum) there shouldn't be any problem at all. Linux is very good at supporting older hardware. All hardware, including most printers etc, will work "out of the box".
Only weak spot is Wireless adapters. For some there isn't a driver at all available, for others the driver is written by the Linux community, without much help (if any) from the manufacturer, and an additional problem is that many chip-sets need to have firmware uploaded to them to work, and the firmware is also proprietary, so cannot legally be copied. For these reasons, sometimes the only way to get Wireless to work is by simply using the windows drivers with an "interface program" called a "wrapper" (ndiswrapper for WifI, other wrappers also exist for other special hardware). The wrapper solution sometimes doesn't work seamlessly with the network manager, providing no signal strength details or doesn't support power down recovery. Some printers also need proprietary drivers, but Epson, HP and Brother drivers are mostly covered, except perhaps the very latest models. So yes, running the Live_CD is a very good indicator that everything will work, that is what it was designed to do. You might not see al the resolutions your hardware can support, but you can add a program to the menu's to re-configure the screen and video card later, by using the menu editor. Only reason I can think of why the live_CD would work, and you cannot install, is when you have too little RAM, as running the installer requires more RAM than simply running the CD. But if you have that little RAM, even when it wasn't a problem to install gOS it would be running several applications at the same time. The main reason more than 256MB is required lies with GNOME, which is very memory hungry. This year Good OS will also release other versions of gOS gadgets, that use less power hungry Window managers, like Enlightenment and XFCE. I have also heard rumours that they are working on specific versions that fully support specific netbooks, like the EEE PC, and are optimised to run on each system. On 12 okt, 08:07, Bird_Lover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I can run the live CD, is that a good indicator that gOS 3.0 will > install and run on my low powered 500mhz system? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
