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| 722358 | 2008-11-24 07:04:00 | am just burning the iso for this now meant to do it a while ago. Can anyone tell me if an old P3 comp will run it adequately just want to use it for backups of our 2 main comps | gary67 (56) | ||
| 722359 | 2008-11-24 07:19:00 | System Requirements as per the Magazine article: 256Mb RAM 700MHz pentium III or Athlon Processor or better If you want to stream Multimedia Intel 2 GHz P4 or Newer 1 Gb RAM The One I have running in the workshop that I was mucking about with is a celeron 2.4 with 512 Mb RAM. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 722360 | 2008-11-24 07:24:00 | Yeah just been out to the shed to check it is a P3 733MHz with 256, will give it a go tomorrow eve as have a spare HDD I can install it on without having to uninstall XP from the other HDD. Thanks |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 722361 | 2008-11-24 07:34:00 | No worries. Its actually one of the easier Linux distro's , that I have played with to actually understand from a Non Linux users point of view - hell the file sharing was even dead easy to setup. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 722362 | 2008-11-24 09:21:00 | Sorry to hijack but this sounds interesting... :D Is it Linux or Windows? If linux, where can I download it from?? |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 722363 | 2008-11-24 17:47:00 | It's linux Xubuntu based it came from last months (October) Australian PC user mag it. if it's not available anymore I could run off a copy for you although I think Wainui has some copies in your area | gary67 (56) | ||
| 722364 | 2008-11-24 22:39:00 | It's linux Xubuntu based it came from last months (October) Australian PC user mag it... AHHHHH the sacrilege!!! Reading another PC Magazine... and an Aussie one at that.... say it ain't so!!! :horrified:horrified:horrified:horrified |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 722365 | 2008-11-24 22:49:00 | AHHHHH the sacrilege!!! Reading another PC Magazine . . . and an Aussie one at that . . . . say it ain't so!!! :horrified:horrified:horrified:horrified :lol: But they give away lots of better stuff - they also have their own OS, called UserOS - an altered Ubuntu that works very well . |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 722366 | 2008-11-25 05:22:00 | It is from OZ but as Wainui said they give away good stuff although I don't buy it all the time I just keep an eye out fro what they are offering. I will have it running this week won't be tonight now though sadly | gary67 (56) | ||
| 722367 | 2008-11-25 05:38:00 | Do they give away free stuff, or stuff that is free? | Rob99 (151) | ||
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