Fedora on old hardware?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> Just to let you know, your system will make a piss poor graphical system  
>> (too slow) with the current environments.  You'd really have to dig  
>> around to find a light-weight one that works.  Its probably OK for  
>> command line stuff though.
> 
> Um. The Original Poster didn’t tell us how much memory he had. In my
> experience, a K6-2 should be fine for processor power for anything that
> isn’t CPU intensive, but is unlikely to have enough memory to run Gnome
> or KDE well.

Most K6-2 motherboards maxed out around 384MB.

> A K6-2 really isn’t that much slower than some of the new Intel Atom
> processors found in some of the new light-weight laptops.

No, but they come with old BIOSes and don't support large disks or much RAM.

> Hope this helps,
> 
> James.
> 


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