Options For Installing Fedora To Older Laptop

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

> 
> I don't think you will have any problem installing FC-3
> if you put in a new disk.
> 192MB RAM is plenty for this purpose.
> 
> Also I didn't notice FC-3 was any slower than FC-2;
> Has someone said it is?
> 
> I'm running FC-3 now on a Sony C1VFK Picturebook with 128MB RAM.
> (It used to have 256MB, but the extra memory has failed.)
> This has a Crusoe 660MHz processor.
> 
> I'm also running FC-3 on a 300MHz Pentium II desktop with 128MB RAM.
> I had no problem installing FC-3, but I must admit X is rather slow.
> 
> Both machines have plenty of disk-space.
> (I installed a 60GB drive in my Picturebook.)
> 
I don't know if FC3 is slower than FC-2 but they are both pretty slow
on a 128M RAM machine. X is certainly slow. But how about Open Office,
and firefox speed of opening. etc, etc, and so forth.  The swapping
alone can torment you endlessly.
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