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Re: [LUG] Wanted please - OT Specs for distros

 

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:43:34 +0000
james kilty wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 15:49 +0000, David Bell wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 March 2008 14:46:15 Tom Potts wrote:
> > 
> > > Davids request for spare equipt made me wonder if we could
> > > compile a 'spec' for distros db.
> > 
> > SuSE 9.1 is still working happily after 2 years on a 100% recycled
> > component Duron 750Mhz with 256 RAM.
> I put my first distro (SUSE 10.0) on a machine with Win98SE on it -
> 384MB RAM with a 450MHz Pentium III. It works fine. Yast is a bit
> slow.
> 

My first was Mandrake 7.1 on a PII/333 with 192MB RAM.  Didn't detect
the onboard ISA soundcard, but that wasn't hard to sort out (once I'd
learnt about it).

Grant.

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