Re: [Staffslug] Slower hardware performance [and off-topic yearing for the good old days] [was Re: Zip Drive]

On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 20:38 +0000, Andrew Edwards wrote: > On 30/12/06, Kris Douglas <webbox.uk(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > I know linux works better on new hardware...but try putting windows XP on a > > 700 mhz CPU n you are asking to get PWNT. > why would i put windows on a machine i know that isn't going to run.. > but equally if you put a laden gui on linux and put it on a 700mhz > pc.. you're not going to get miracles either.. it all depends on what > your primary use is for the machine. happy days anyway and good luck > with that machine! With GNU/Linux RAM is far more important than processor speed. Most of the desktops in our house are Pentium IIs. With 96MB they do most of what we need them for. With 256MB GNOME, OOo and Firefox are happy enough together. The first time I tried KDE I had a 486 with 12MB RAM - now that was a mistake. But stick with PWM or wm2 and you've no problem :-) I'm very tempted to get my 486 laptops [1] working again now, but the cost of a new battery and a bit of RAM is probably close to that of getting a second-hand X21 :-/ Getting back on-topic: XUbuntu (or Debian, or Gentoo) will be fine on such a machine-spec. (K)Ubuntu will be confortable on it if you fill it with RAM :) - Richard /me feeling nostalgic for the days when laptops didn't have to have cinema-sized screens, and 64MB was lots of RAM, not a five-year-old graphics card :-/ [1] http://www.verfasser.de/web/web.nsf/web/Thinkpad http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:701C http://bharucha.com/tp701/byte/byte.html http://www.dummzeuch.de/thinkpad.html _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://www.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug