On Monday 17 May 2004, tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) wrote:
>On Monday 17 May 2004 18:00, Niall O Broin wrote:
>>> The PII-223 machines with 64-96 MB RAM and a 2 GB hard
>> Disk just are NOT going to run a modern distribution,
>>I'm running Fedora-1 on a 300MHz PII with 128MB RAM,
>and it works perfectly well.
For a value of perfectly well which suits you. However, for a non Linux
hobbyist user who wants to actually USE the machine for normal tasks (the kind
of person who is NOT on this list) e.g. run Mozilla, or maybe Open Office then
that spec. of box just does NOT cut it.
Niall
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