Re: [Sheflug] Newbie - H/W recommendations please

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> Hi
> 
> > and even suse, but have had no luck in getting a working installation. I'm
> > presuming that my aging PC just isn't up to the job (it's an old Viglen
> > P100). . . . or I'm just not getting something right! 
> 
> I'm writing this message from a P-75 (Viglen too), happily running
> SuSE-7.0 with a 2.4.x kernel. Just need a bit more memory than those
> 'old' PC usually have - I've got 48M and that's about ok for me (64M would
> do better though:-))
> 

P75? Pah! Luxery! My laptop - an aging 486/25 with a grand total of 12MB of 
memory is quite happily running a basterdised SuSE 6.2...no X though...the 
thought of trying to work out what I needed and what I didn't need to bring 
across was too much...and for what I use it for, text is fine :)

Chris...

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