On 22 Oct 2002, Michael Knepher wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 12:06, Thomas Dodd wrote: > > Andrew Smith wrote: > > > Yes there is no point running KDE/Gnome on anything much below a PIII 500 > > > (I know that as a fact in earlier releases - a PII 333 is too slow) > > > but you do NOT need X to run a server - my DNS/mail server is only a > > > > GNOME-2.0 and RHL-8.0 run just fine on my K6III-400. That is > > definately slower. Not for gaming, buy coding, web browsing, > > email, and such it's fine. > > I'm running RH 8.0 quite happily on my K6-2 400 at work, and I'll > hopefully be able to push to get everyone here switched over from > Windows. It's not as fast as on my Athlon XP 1800+ at home, but it's a > big improvement over Mandrake 8.2, which I was running before the Limbo > beta came out.
How much RAM do you have, and what desktop are you running? Oisin Feeley
