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neo_x500:
My computer that I want to install linux on has a pentium 166 processor with mmx tech. It also has a measely 32 MB RAM. Can I still run Linux without any problems. My Harddrive also has 3 gig. I'm not sure if the processor or the ram are enough though. Win 95 run fine on it though. I don't plan to use it for much more than internet access and maybe playing a few ancient games. No cd burning or any stuff like that. I dont have any problems with this stuff now as a win 95 accept that it crashes everytime I try and read the posts that cause a bsod. That was real cute by the way, locking me out of my own thread. PLEASE DONT DO IT AGAIN. thank you.

preacher:

quote:Originally posted by Neo:
My computer that I want to install linux on has a pentium 166 processor with mmx tech. It also has a measely 32 MB RAM. Can I still run Linux without any problems. My Harddrive also has 3 gig. I'm not sure if the processor or the ram are enough though. Win 95 run fine on it though. I don't plan to use it for much more than internet access and maybe playing a few ancient games. No cd burning or any stuff like that. I dont have any problems with this stuff now as a win 95 accept that it crashes everytime I try and read the posts that cause a bsod. That was real cute by the way, locking me out of my own thread. PLEASE DONT DO IT AGAIN. thank you.
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This question is very similar to another question posted in this thread.
http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=000420

Yes your pc can handle linux and one of the less resource heavy desktop environments.

Lloydr:
yep ur system can run it.....probaly a lot faster than one of my systems....such as my ancient pentium I 50mhz lol...the ram is plenty too since linux don't eat up resources like some shitty Operating systems such as WINBLOWS!!!! lol lata

[ June 23, 2002: Message edited by: RedHat SeaWolf ]

lazygamer:
So in Linux is there some super rad mega performance enhancer option if you have tons of ram like me?(384 mb ram)  

It's a shame that only 32 of that is needed.

voidmain:
32MB is a minimum.  The more the merrier.  I put at least 512MB in any new system.  384 should do you just fine, and in fact just about right if you don't use VMware.  I regularly run several operating systems at the same time using Linux as my base.  512MB seems skimpy sometimes.

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