On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:32:49 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote about Re: [Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?:
>We have lots of examples of people with older and weak machines using >Mandriva Linux 2010.1, although not with KDE or Gnome. It is not the >basic system which needs the power of modern machines, it is the GUI, >especially the Gnome and KDE graphical environments. Yup: one of my boxes is a Compaq Proliant with a Pentium II at 300 MHz with 256 Mb of RAM running 2010.0, uptime 208 days. It will run GNOME, but slowly. So I use IceWM. It will be upgraded when it has to reboot, to the next official version of Mandriva or Mageia , if available by then. Cheers, =Dick Gevers= _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
