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On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:05 am, Simon Waters wrote:
Kai Hendry wrote:On ti, touko 28, 2002 at 09:56:17 +0100, jody salt wrote:I just got second hand pc (a p200 with 320 (I think) of ram) which I want to run X-windows on, I have320 RAM? A P200 is quite slow for running X. I hate seeing novices recycling machines with linux and putting X on it. New machines are really quite cheap. IMO it puts Linux in a bad light when people see something like X+KDE for the first time on a struggling pentium.I too think that the recycling old machine stuff is a bad move. Those who said you could recycle old machines originally meant as mail servers, DNS servers, file servers, that sort of thing.Win95 is honestly better. :/No it isn't. I have P200 equivalent machine (128MB of memory), and it runs KDE 1 fine, I wouldn't want KDE 2 on it I suspect, but other lighterweight Window managers should be fine. A case of circa 95/98 OSes on circa 95/98 machines. This machine is actually the minimum spec to run Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server, but I decided Linux was more advanced, and less resource hungry, and less buggy after I tried Advanced Server. Mind W2K was a lot better than Win95/98/NT4.Old machines are great for testing out the dark(console) side of linux. mutt, irssi, vim and various services. :)You can invert the console screen colours if it is too dark ;) No need to stick with green on black either these days, but it is traditional.
My wife is now running SuSE 6.2 with X on a P75 machine with 64MB RAM as a stand alone machine (no Internet). She used to run W95 but ran out of money for software. She says she doesn't notice any lack of speed except when loading something large eg StarOffice. Keith -- SuSE 8.0 Linux on 700Mhz AMD Duron 128MB RAM 20GB HD -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.