Combine a 2.4 GHz pc with a 500 Mhz pc?

[Tim]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 13:29 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Unless you're doing something particularly speed-related, Fedora
> should work perfectly on a 500 MHz system -- or a 60 MHz Pentium, come
> to that.

I can't attest to the 60 MHz, but I've got it running quite fine on a
collection of old PCs:

566 MHz Celeron, 385056 kB RAM
500 MHz Celeron, 385052 kB RAM
450 MHz PIII, 511 MB RAM
260 MHz PII, 196608 kB RAM

The slowest one surprised me, I thought it'd be unbearable, but it's
passable, even using Gnome.  It's been cobbled together out of left-over
bits to be a jukebox, so once it's going it doesn't need to played with,
and you can't tell it's slow unless you're messing with the GUI.

To be honest, I prefer the older PCs; they don't run as hot and don't
need as much noisy cooling as the current monsters.  My 500 MHz one only
has one, very quiet, fan in the box.

I've got a friend who's used slower PCs, but he uses a light-weight
window manager.

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