On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 02:27, robin wrote: > On the subject of memory, would converting a Celeron box to Linux bypass > the problem that Celeron chips in Windows canonly utilise a certain > amount of memory? We have a Celeron with 32MB of RAM, and have been > told there is no point in adding RAM because the chip wouldn't be able > to access it. > > Sir Robin
That's complete rubbish. This production box here is a Celery 1200mhz w/ 512mb of RAM running linux. I've installed Slackware, RedHat, Mandrake, Gentoo, Knoppix - aside from BeOS, OS/2, Win95/98/ME/2k/XP, and SCO x86. I'm more than certainly seeing more than 32mb of RAM... Under Windows, it WORKED quite well - that is, under a normal installation of Windows - which is all gone now - but even "virtually" using VMWare...nary a prob... -- Tue, 28 Jan 2003 06:35:00 +1100 6:35am up 20:24, 5 users, load average: 2.35, 0.87, 0.51 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
