On Thursday 26 May 2005 02:30 pm, Stephane Pinel wrote: You wrote: | | Of course it's not a question of money or something. It's just that I | have a couple of | Dell servers (not too young: one is a Dell PowerEdge SC500 Celeron | 900 Mhz with 128 Mo RAM). | In my newbie mind, I was supposing that these old machines could | serve as Linux test machines | but due to their age, my idea was to put an old Linux on, avoiding | big ressources needs. | | The other part of the 'problem' is that I own a brand new NoteBook | (Samsung M40) that runs Windows XP: | of course I would like to get Linux running on it (dual boot) but | regarding my CD-Rom murders history, I'm | scared with that idea. Then this is really frustrating ;-) | | Regards. | | St�phane
A 900Mhz will run ANY distro. More ram would be nice but not a stopper. My fastest desktop machine is an 850--512 ram, though. And, re: the notebook. Only LG CDROMS were bugged up, and I'm pretty sure LG fixed that problem a couple of years ago, so a new notebook couldn't have it. And about 9.2. It works, but there is stuff that needs to be updated to work properly. I still use it for my everyday work machines, but I repeat--you have to download some fixes for some very annoying problems--depending on when your install disks were stamped. You might want to try the latest release, instead. The only reason I'm still on 9.2 is I have everything working exactly the way I want it and I'm not ready to update except on experimental machines. e
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