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04-Jun-2005, 07:59 AM #1
Question Fedora Distribution?
Want to put fedora on an old PC i have resurrected - heres the spec:

Intel Celeron A 400MGz processor with 128MB RAM using old Soundblaster 16 with a RAGE PRO 2x (8MB) graphics card with integrated TV card

I like the idea of Fedora but would it be suitable to run on a system like this? Its about 10 years old but is working fine running windows 2000. I wouldnt use the system to go online, more word processing etc. Any suggestions? (Am Linux newbie)

Thanks!!!!!!
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04-Jun-2005, 02:32 PM #2
I've had Fedora core 1 running on an old Dell PII with no problems for about a year now...
350Mhz, 128MB RAM, onboard sound and video.
It ain't quick but it's quicker than win98 which is on the other disc on the same machine...
crashes a helluva lot less too
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04-Jun-2005, 09:28 PM #3
Fedora will run fine on that box. Not my distro of choice though ....
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04-Jun-2005, 09:53 PM #4
I use Fedora Core 3, I just installed it on an old Win 98 comp less than 4 hrs ago, that comp has 340 mb ram, and like a 12 gb harddrive, I dunno. But my sound doesn't work. I can't surf the net on it yet, but check the internet because I'm not familiar with Celeron A, or go get a book out of the library. I'm not sure if you can use fedora with a before pentium, think you gotta use debian. But I'm not sure!
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05-Jun-2005, 05:29 AM #5
The redhat hardware list has the celeron A as compatible so there shouldn't be any issues...

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/hwcert/show.cgi?id=153528
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