What Linux distro for a P3 computer 3528
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I run Red Hat Linux 9 on a dual 550MHz Pentium III machine with 512 Megabytes RAM and it works just fine. That machine used to have two 9 GByte 10,000rpm SCSI-2 hard drives. It still does, but I added an 80GByte 7200rpm EIDE hard drive when I had to dual boot it with Windows XP Home.
Hello all. First off I decided to try installing Debian...mostly because I already downloaded it. I tried Knoppix as well, but the HD Install isn't so easy... I spent...
I have always run GNOME on it, and it is definately fast enough. When running XP Home, it runs only one of the processors, and it is still fast enough to run Quicken and TurboTax (the only stuff I run on XP), though they start slowly. OTOH, the slowness is probably due to the design of the Intuit software, not the OS.
I do not really recommend Red Hat 9 as it has been discontinued over a year ago. You might risk it if you do not hook up to the Internet, or if you have a very good firewall on another machine protecting it.
It should run just fine. You will probably want to increase the RAM to at least 256 Megabytes, and you may want mor that 2GB of hard drive. An EIDE 7200rpm 80GByte hard drive cost US$75 about a year ago, so it is probably cheaper now.
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