On May 10, 2005 02:00, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 09 May 2005 19:32, Aidan Holmes wrote: > > The hardware: the machine she gave me to look at today is an early > > penium (100 perhaps) with 16Mb of RAM. > > I don't think you'll get any modern distro with gui to work on that, Aidan. > It's not just that it's slow, but 64MB RAM is minimum these days. ... Actually 128MB is the practical minimum for KDE. I tried Mdk 10.1 on an old laptop with 64MB, and it thrashed itself to death. Switching apps took 30-60 seconds each time. Worked okay with XFCE, though.
-- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. "As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess." - Red Green
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