Combine a 2.4 GHz pc with a 500 Mhz pc?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 2/8/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Can you by chance remember if FC4 comes with XFCE on the CD Roms?

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