Options For Installing Fedora To Older Laptop

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>>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.)
>>
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>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.
>  
>
FC3 may feel slower due to SELinux, if you disable it, FC3's actually 
faster than 2
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