[NTLUG:Discuss] linux & 100 Mhz Pentium

[David A Venable]

Tom Tumelty wrote:

>Hi,
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>Does anyone know if a recent linux release such as redhat 9, or 8, or slackware 9, or 8.x  will run on a 100 Mhz pentium ?  if so will it be fast enough to do anything?,,,,,i am thinking it might need to be a very scaled down, minimal system......
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>Thanks,
>Tom
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It depends on what you want to do with it. It's probably too slow for an 
X workstation but it might be useable with a trimmed down WM like IceWM. 
It would make a decent Router/Firewall for a home network. It would 
probably make a good samba server as long as there weren't too many 
clients connected to it. Take a look at Debian, unlike other distros, 
you pretty much pick and choose exactly what you want without a lot of 
extra stuff.

Dave