> Compaq Armada 1520 I know that an Armada 1700 runs fine under Linux, except perhaps for the fan, which switches off under DOS and fried a pcmcia card. I can't remember whether it kept running under Linux as I hardwired it. It's not a terribly useful machine though, even with approx 300MB RAM it's slow, the CPU is slow to start with (p2 233?), and the disks don't have DMA (= very slow).
> ?133kHz Pentium? > 32MB RAM > 1GB HDD > only to discover that I've added $100 value to a doorstop. Sorry to say, but that box *is* a doorstop. Times when X could be run in 32MB are long past, though I admit not having tried it for a while. And on top of that you then want to run some application software? Not openoffice, that's for sure. I doubt that you'd be able to make use of this box in a manner which remotely resembles efficient. The bare minimum for anything desktop is a P2 I'd say, though a P1 might do you in a crunch as long as it has an MMX (or AMD equivalent) in its name, IMHO. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
