Is Fedora 6 fit in IBM A21 notebook?

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 13:02 -0700, frank wang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a IBM A21p notebook with Pentium III 850 Mhz CPU and 512 RAM. I
> want to install Linux on it. Is Fedora 6 a goog choice for this? or
> other release of Linux?

512M is rather tight for FC6.  850MHz and 512M is not really a good fit
for running in GUI mode in most Linux distros.  You might try something
like "TinyLinux" or one of the other mini distros.  Here's a good link:

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Mini_Distributions/

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