On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 20:55 +0530, Prem wrote: > I would like to know the lowest configuration of PC you have > successfully used to run Linux as a barebones desktop.
I've personally used a Celeron 400 Mhz machine with 128 MB RAM, i440LX mobo and Cirrus Logic 5446 1MB VRAM graphics card to get a pretty usable desktop that can run GNOME 2.6. :) Of course since the hard disk has started to fail, I've had to retire this machine from Desktop duty :( > I would like to > build a cheap one for my dad with which he can browse the net, watch > VCDs & use the TV Tuner card to watch TV shows. He would be using a > USB based ADSL modem. You can get a very usable desktop out of a P3 ~700 Mhz, 128 MB RAM (don't go below that, if you don't want to thrash the hard disk), an el-cheapo i810 based mobo. Question is, is the ADSL modem a USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 device ?? If it's the latter you'll have to check the specs of the mobo to see if USB 2.0 is supported. Oh, and check whether the hard disk is working properly. > For the above requirements, I considered using Damn Small Linux, but > it doesnt support the TV Tuner & the USB based ADSL modem. So any > suggestion of a suitable distro would also be helpful for me. <shameless plug> Debian ?? :D </shameless plug> or Knoppix or Ubuntu. The latter two specially has very good hardware support. By the way, DSL IMHO doesn't have a GUI that a person coming from the Windows world can easily adapt to. HTH -- Soumyadip Modak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
