Hey,
One of the boxes I have here dual-boots W98 & RH 6.0. It's a
P100, an 850MB & a 250MB drive, has 48MB RAM & the RH spans both
disks. While it's not a ~lot~ faster than W98, it is noticeable.
As Herman mentioned, RAM is important. My girl friend's pc is
a P-II 333 with 64MB of RAM & mine is a P-III 500 with 256MB RAM.
Each, right now, is dual-booting W2k & LM 7.2. Naturally, mine
is much faster, & the RAM never seems to fill up. But such apps
at Star Office on hers is slower than one might expect (the 5.0
release when she was running RH 6.0 was completely unusable).
I'd been stuck some months ago when I was running RH 6.0 on my
box, & I'd had to spend a few days on the P100. While it's
painfully slower than my P-III, it wasn't ~that~ bad.
Meph
> Sorry Herman, our machine has 48meg, will linux run ok?
> ...which is the <lightest> program manager and what size
> should i make my linux partition?
> David and Alicia
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Herman Christiani
> Sent: 29 December 2000 10:14
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] basic question
> Hi,
> Yes, you can and it will run faster then windows,
> but you forgot to mention the amount of ram?
> Linux likes it's ram, the more the better.
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > Can i install mandrake on my (shame) p200mmx 3.3gig machine?
> > will it run apps faster than windoze bloatware?
> > David and Alicia
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