From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net ([64.164.98.8]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17yJ5Q-0002iL-00 for ; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 17:37:16 -0400 Received: from panda.PacBell.NET ([64.167.149.196]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0H3K00CX2XDZWL@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 14:37:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 14:40:34 -0700 From: Bear in SFO Subject: Re: system requirements for red hat 8.0 In-reply-to: <20021006172431.GA4736@dalek> X-Sender: bearsfo@postoffice.pacbell.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Message-id: <5.1.0.14.0.20021006143246.00ade628@postoffice.pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: You might want more RAM (64M?) if you want X but as far as processor you are way ahead of the minimum - way ahead... What I have at home(currently 7.3 and will be 8 in a couple weeks): P/90, 64M RAM, 1M video card (yes X works on that too!) maybe 6G of drive space and a 2X CD ROM... At 01:24 PM 10/6/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Uhh. If you can't get GNU/Linux running on that...I'll eat my >hat. Which I won't have to do...I like my hat...No problem with that >hardware. > >200/300MHz processors are plenty fast enough. You can get a GNU/Linux >system on a 386...but...any ol' Pentium will do nicely. 32MB is nice, >64MB is nicer, and depending on how creative you wanna be, you can get >a system into a fairly small space...but any system with a P2 or P3 >likely has at least a couple gig HDD...plenty of room. I believe >official spec still says at least a 386, at least 8MB RAM (may require >16MB these day)...drive space is pretty variable depending on what you >want. Still, with the hardware you propose, you ought not have any >problems. > >BTW, don't knock those "old" systems. ... Both desktops here are "old" >(a P2/450...or is it a P3/450? Anyway) and a AMD K6-2/350. Laptop is >the newest and fastest machine I own...I actually also have a P133 I >want to put GNU/Linux on, but not sure about the four-disc changer I >have in it. >-- >Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV/3 | "And if the ground yawned, >Phone: (814) 455-7333 | I'd step to the side and say, >Email: davros@ycardz.com | "Hey ground! I'm nobody's lunch!" >http://www.ycardz.com/ | --Eddie From Ohio > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup