[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> 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