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[Ken Hough <kenhough@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Allen wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:41:06 +0100
> Ken Hough <kenhough@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Allen wrote:
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> > > On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:37:34 -0400
> > > Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > They don't need to know. Let them set near pysychotic requirements, and let people realise even the newest version of SUSE can still run on older hardware.
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> > Yes it can, but it's not much fun waiting for KDE/Open Office on a 
> > 500MHz/126MB box.. Modern X stuff needs some horsepower and memory to be 
> > realistically workable.
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> Why did you reply off list?
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Sorry. My mistake.

> And I run Linux and BSD on most my boxes here. Two of them are this:
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> Celeron 433 MHz 192 RAM, 8 MBs Video.
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> P3 733 MHz 384 RAM, 16 MB Video.
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> KDE works fine on them. I don't use Open Office or any other office suit. I use Gedit and Vim for just about everything.
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> I can use Firefox, with around 30 tabs open, XMMS running, a file manager like Konq open, and no problems.
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> > Ken Hough
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> > > -Allen
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> > >      
I have two Athlon boxes (1600XP and 2200XP, each with 512 MB RAM), a 
500MHz K6II with 512MB RAM, a 700 MHz PIII with 512MB RAM, a 700MHz 
Thinkpad with 384MB RAM and I used to run a 300MB Toshiba laptop with 
256MB RAM. These PCs all run/ran SuSE.

IMHO, the 700MHz PIII is on the linit of acceptable practical speed. For 
image processing, the Athlons are the only ones that I would spend time 
with.

I cannot comment on BSD as I've not used it.

Ken Hough


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