[CentOS] Re: Mini-centOS

Wed May 25 15:50:08 UTC 2005
Chris Mauritz <chrism at imntv.com>

Nicola Losito wrote:

> Chris Mauritz ha scritto:
>
>> The best thing you can do to speed things up is to bump your memory 
>> up to 512mb.  I suspect that will make a big difference in perceived 
>> speed.
>
>
>
> I'm awfully late on the list, but I can assure that a p3 @1GHz with 
> 512MB of pc133 ram works perfectly with no apparent difference with my 
> centrino @1,6GHz.
>

As a point of reference, I just did 2 installs on "older hardware" that 
is being repurposed for one of my young children to play on.  The 
configs were as follows:

single cpu P4 2.0ghz
512mb RAM
60gig maxtor ATA/133 hard disk
Nvidia Geforce 5200 video card

dual P3 850
1024mb RAM
60gig Maxtor ATA/133 hard disk
Nvidia GeForce 5200 hard disk

The hard drives were "whatever was on sale" when I walked into CompUSA 
yesterday.  Same for the video cards.  I installed 4.0 in a desktop 
configuration on both machines and without having run any benchmarks, it 
certainly FEELS like the dual P3 system is a lot snappier to use.  
Windows XP seemed a bit sluggish on both machines by comparison.  As a 
matter of fact, the dual P3 seems more responsive than my Athlon 64 
3400+ Compaq notebook running WinXP.  Go figure.  I'll probably give my 
daughter the dual P3.  My wife wanted to run out and buy a Mac mini for 
the kids, but I just couldn't see myself dropping $700 on that when I 
had all this "extra" hardware laying about.  You definitely don't need 
the latest and greatest hardware to make Linux sing.

Cheers,

C