[NTLUG:Discuss] linux & 100 Mhz Pentium

[Tom Tumelty]

Rusty,
 
Thanks for the info.
 
Tom


Rusty Haddock <rusty at fe2o3.lonestar.org> wrote:
Tom Tumelty wrote:
>Hi,
> 
>Does anyone know if a recent linux release such as redhat 9, or 8,
>or slackware 9, or 8.x will run on a 100 Mhz pentium ? if so will
>it be fast enough to do anything?,,,,,i am thinking it might need
>to be a very scaled down, minimal system......

Yes, I have a P-133 at home and P-100 at work both running RH5.2. It's
a tad slow on large files and large graphical tasks but it does run and
run well. I wouldn't be running something like KDE or Gnome it definitely
doesn't have enough memory or CPU for those but FVWM or some of the
"lighter" GUIs will work fine.

-Rusty-
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