I teach a class on UNIX using Linux as the environment. The computer lab
consists of hand-me-downs from main campus. We found that Corel Linux
seems the least resource hungry, but we were able to install Red Hat and
Mandrake on the machines as well. These computers are 166MHz Pentium
with 32MB RAM. Admittedly the graphic interface runs slowly, but it does
run. I would not want it for a serious business machine, but for getting
to know Linux is should be fine. Incidentally, we increased the RAM to
64MB for some $10 and it did improve performance.

Peter
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On Sunday 06 October 2002 06:07 pm, Marilyn Wilson wrote:
> I want to experiment with Linux.  I have dwl'd Mandrake 9.0 and have
> an old computer Pentium 120 mhz. with at most 32 meg of Ram.  Would I
> be able to install and run Mandrake on this?

Not likely. Mandrake, Red Hat and Suse all require a minimum of 64 mb
RAM for a graphical interface, and somewhat more processor speed than
you have. I've heard of people using 266 mhz processors, but performance
is very slow.

Carroll Grigsby

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