Bill Glidden wrote:
> Along these same lines, I just inherited a 500Mhz Celeron with 64MB of RAM.
> Should I get more memory or will this suffice?
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 10:29, Chad Perrin wrote:
> Debian'll install (and run) on that just fine. Heh.
> I guess it depends on what you're going to do with the box once you get
> it running.
Starting with Red Hat CL4 (Fedora Core 2-4/RHEL 4), Red Hat includes
XFCE as a standard GUI option. Shortly after Fedora Core 2 was
released, Alan Cox boasted he was running Fedora Core 2 on a 225MHz IDT
WinChip2 with 48MB of RAM.
But in a nutshell, memory is far more important than clock. I'd rather
have a 1GHz P3 with 1GB of RAM than a 3.2GHz P4 with 256MB of RAM --
10-fold. Heck, I/O is more important than CPU these days, even on
desktops.
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