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Re: [LUG] RH 9.x



On Wednesday 23 July 2003 20:46, you wrote:
> I am also (barely) running RedHat 9 on a box with low specs Pentium 200MHz,
> 32MB RAM.
> It is so slow (not a surprise) but it doesn't take more than 30 mins to log
> in! I should probably have at least 128MB RAM but PC 66 is difficult to get
> hold of, and it fried one of the chips I had. I just bought a new
> motherboard anyway (I blagged the one I'm using at the moment) it is a
> 450MHz Pentium III, need to save up for some RAM though. Looking forward to
> a decent speed box to experiment with.

I've got debian with XFree 4.x, enlightenment, mozilla and kmail. Console is 
speedy, window refreshes are a little slow, and mozilla takes about 20 
seconds to start up. This is on a P166, but I have got 80MB ram. I think ram 
is whats important.

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