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| 149726 | 2003-06-04 07:48:00 | Greeting from Dunedin! I would appreciate any help and advice from anyone with Linux experience. I have brought a copy of Mandrake 9 (which came free with a linux manual on sale in the local bookstore. A steal @ $15) I would like to re-build a second hand computer as a surprise present for my Grandson and install Mandrake Linux as the OS. What I would like to know is, what would be the minimum specs I should look for in purchasing an old computer as I would like to keep the cost down as far as possible. Regards, Walter |
Southern_Man (3944) | ||
| 149727 | 2003-06-04 08:05:00 | you can get a list of all the currently recomended hardware for Mandrake 9.1 at www.mandrakelinux.com www.mandrake.com also has the recommended minimum requirements. N |
nicnz (2273) | ||
| 149728 | 2003-06-04 08:13:00 | If you're using a GUI such as KDE/Gnome, the more RAM the better.. 128 would be a minimum suggestion. HDD space.. allow upto two gigs for install, plus whatever else on top of that! CPU.. Obviously the newer the better, 233 would be an 'acceptable' minimum, I would recommend 500Mhz upwards however for things to run 'smoothly' in all occasions :-) Any graphics card will do, soundcard also :-) Hope this helps Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 149729 | 2003-06-04 08:17:00 | Agree with the above - don't be fooled by statements that Linux will run on really old hardware - it will! .... but if you want a fully featured modern GUI to run (GNOME or KDE) it requires similar spec's to a Windows 2000 PC. If you are willing to go for an older version, you can get away with an older PC. I have a daugher using RH7.0 on a Pentium 100 with 64Mbytes of RAM - a bit marginal but it works! |
JohnD (509) | ||
| 149730 | 2003-06-04 08:40:00 | You can run RedHat 9 on a similar spec's PC.. Ive run RedHat 8.0 on a P75 with 24MB RAM. I was running XFCE though, Phoenix (Now Mozilla Firebird) was running fine, a little slow admittedly.. but it ran! |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 149731 | 2003-06-04 09:21:00 | I'm totally caning a AMD450 with 256 meg of RAM and a 32meg nvidia graphics card. Machines of this age/spec are a dime a dozen. Its on 24/7, works as network file server, gateway, FTP server to the web, and http server. It also gets used as an end user machine, currently with only 16 windows open, one is the email client, one is GAIM, and the rest are browser windows. It does OK........ .Chris |
Chris (3346) | ||
| 149732 | 2003-06-04 09:30:00 | Yes, that'd be the RAM there :-) The more the better, LInux will use it all to help speed up your PC! 300Mhz or higher should suffice for most day-to-day uses like Email, surfing etc :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 149733 | 2003-06-04 11:58:00 | I used to run mandrake 9.1 my old computer which was a PII-400 with 256MB ram and it ran fine. I use redhat 7.x on PII-300 machines with only 128MB at otago uni and they aren't too bad. The swapfile gets used, but only ~10mb. I've tried running it on only 64mb (with KDE/gnome) and it wasn't fun. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 149734 | 2003-06-04 12:11:00 | As long as you disable things you likely wont need, like SSH, you should be peachy with 128MB.. unless you're gonna multi-task a lot! My Gnome Desktop uses 110 after logging in with nothing open. I do however run SSH, and vsftpd which most people probably wouldnt need :-) Linux uses all of my 512MB RAM though.. Some sort of Cache Ive been told.. Things run very smoothly :-) It does run 'slowly' to say the least if its using the Swap file :-) It IS bearable for the most of it though if you're processor is anything 166Mhz upwards in general ;-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
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