The necessity of in might not be very high, but just out of curiosity,
can one run Linux on a Pentium 4 driven system?
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi Pinchas,
>
> Mind telling me why do you want to pay for stuff that you really don't need
> or use?
>
> Examples:
>
> 1. You want to buy Pentium 4 - yet, there isn't a single program that will
> let you use it's real power (specially with SSE2). GCC 3.1 will probably have
> support for SSE-2, but currently - nothing is supporting it.
>
> 2. Buying P4? congratulations - now, buy RDRAM, yes - the very expensive one
> which has been shown in every review that it's speed is the same with
> DDR-RAM..
>
> 3. You'll also need to replace your board, box, and power supply because it
> makes lots of heat..
>
> So why don't you just buy yourself a nice AMD Athlon, that 1.2 Ghz or 1.33
> Ghz is much cheaper then any Pentium 4, couple it with some DDR-RAM, buy in
> the spare change some good graphics card and sound card - and enjoy ;)
>
> Hetz
>
>
> On Friday 18 May 2001 18:38, Pinchas Rosenfeld wrote:
>
>>Hi Linuxers,
>>In the last 6 years, my old P-100 with 32MB of memory workstation,
>>moved from RH-2.1, to RH-4.0, to RH 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6, 6.1 and also to
>>Mandrake 7 and 7.1. During that time I did several nice unix programming
>>projects on it and the compilation speed didn't bother me at.
>>(gave me more time for coffee-:).
>>Now, with RH 6.2 and Mandrake 7.2 , my computer is really overworked
>>and can barely run a graphic IDE on it.
>>
>>I want to upgrade to Linux on Pentium 4. I searched the net , but it looks
>>as if there are no linux distributions that perform well on Pentium 4,
>>or perform at all ?
>>Does anyone of you have any experience on that matter ?
>>
>>Eagerly waiting for your response.
>>
>>Pinchas
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