[NTLUG:Discuss] linux & 100 Mhz Pentium

[Rusty Haddock]

Tom Tumelty wrote:
    >Hi,
    > 
    >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......

Yes, I have a P-133 at home and P-100 at work both running RH5.2.  It's
a tad slow on large files and large graphical tasks but it does run and
run well.  I wouldn't be running something like KDE or Gnome it definitely
doesn't have enough memory or CPU for those but FVWM or some of the
"lighter" GUIs will work fine.

	-Rusty-
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