OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Tom Horsley<tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:52:39 -0300
> Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
>> plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI
>> video adapters (video chipset? I don´t even remember) for a
>> dual-display config.
>
> I was running a dual PIII with about the same specs not
> too long ago. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't really
> peppy either. The biggest problem is likely to be the
> video. There are so many older video cards no longer
> supported by the shipped xorg. You might want to try
> a livecd and see if it can talk to the video.

Thanks... for some reason I didn´t think of the LiveCD approach...

FC