tamathumper Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Reading another post seemed to intimate that only 9.x's kernel will run on Pentium II's... I'm a bit confused - will 2005 LE (and 2006) run on my Pentium II dual-processor box? Surely it must run on my Pentium III dual processor box? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Either 2005 or 2006 should run on a P-II or P-III. The amount of RAM you have is a bigger issue. When installing select gnome over KDE if you have smallish amounts of RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Earlier version of Linux Mandrake would be best, either 8 or 9, since the amount of RAM and processor will be a problem. KDE/Gnome in 10.x and higher use a lot of resources, and will run really slow. Use IceWM or Fluxbox, Blackbox or another Window Manager so that it'd run better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamathumper Posted October 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Earlier version of Linux Mandrake would be best, either 8 or 9, since the amount of RAM and processor will be a problem. KDE/Gnome in 10.x and higher use a lot of resources, and will run really slow. Use IceWM or Fluxbox, Blackbox or another Window Manager so that it'd run better. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Each box now has 1GB of RAM, so I should be OK resource-wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Cool :P Swap only needs to be 512MB, shouldn't need bigger than this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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