> The beige G3 will have 384 MB of RAM...or maybe a bit more...not sure.
>
> Will it run at a decent speed? I've heard YDL runs very fast on older
> machines, machines that won't run OS X at all. So I'm hoping it lives
> up to that promise.
384 will be plenty. I used to have 160MB in my beige G3 and
YDL was quite happy with that -- very rarely hitting the swap
partition. I now have 416MB in it, just because 256MB SDRAM
was really cheap last year... might come in handy if I put
OSX on it, too.
One thing that will really make a difference is to replace the
huge desktop systems (KDE & Gnome) with a mid-level window
manager like AfterStep. First time I installed YDL 2.2 and
AfterStep, it felt so fast it made my eyes water. :-)
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