donated computers lab setup

[Norm]

Kam Leo wrote:
> On 12/29/06, john s. <john at johnsdesign.net> wrote:
>> jim tate wrote:
>> > Alan wrote:
>> >>> Good Will Industries used to slap FC3 on theirs, in Roanoke VA. Great
>> >>> people to do so. They'd sell an entire outfit for $100. I doubt 
>> FC5 or
>> >>> FC6 would install though. Happy New Year to you, too. Ric
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> A small FC6 install will drop fine onto a 128MB box although for a 
>> small
>> >> box its quicker to set up an image on a larger box, make sure it 
>> has the
>> >> right i586 etc kernel/glibc installed and then rsync it using an
>> >> external
>> >> disk caddy
>> >>
>> >> A base system with X, xfce, sylpheed, abiword should be quite
>> >> acceptable,
>> >> just avoid all the heavy gnome/kde stuff.
>> >>
>> >> Alan
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Yeah, will I can't FC6 to install on a HP omnibook laptop because of ,
>> > only 128meg of memory.
>> >
>>   Noticed the same thing with mine. Installed okay with 384mb.
>>
> 
> Since version 10.1 OpenSuSE requires 384 MB of memory to run in live
> mode. It's really a crying shame: There are so many old boxes with 256
> MB or less memory and I cannot demo either of the top Linux distros on
> them.
> 
> How do you convert people if they cannot try out the product? What
> other live distros are in the same boat?
> 

I ran Core 5 successfully on 128 of RAM; slower than I would have liked, 
but then the box was free   So I could not complain at the speed.  I 
found another 128 RAM and run core 6 on the same box, once again faster 
would be nicer but it works well enough in most cases, the only stumble 
is when I use Yum and the box seems to have a tendency to hang  the Yum 
process, don't know if this is hardware or a Yum issue but not really 
more than a minor inconvenience.
I have also successfully installed SUSE 10, Ubuntu 6.10 and Debian Sarge 
on the same box all work well enough that I would not hesitate to 
install on a box that is to be donated.
Currently I am using the box as a dual boot Ubuntu/core 6  (also bumped 
the hard drive to 30 gig and installed a newer cd rw drive))as my prime 
box rather than a newer faster and better box contaminated with XP (wish 
I could upgrade the box to  any Linux version but business interest 
require I stay with an inferior system on one box)