FAQ gally2: System Requirements

[Chris Nestrud]

You could mention that anything which runs Windows haf-way decently
should work well with linux. This is just meant to assure new users
that, if they're using their computer for Windows tasks, it's likely to
work well with linux.

Chris

On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:04:03PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> I don't think it's useful to leave the minimum system requirement as it
> is. While it is academically true that one can run linux with speakup on a
> 386 or 486 system, doing so is a little bit more dificult than our blithe
> comments suggest. It seems to me that most people here on out will use
> some of the canned installation distributions, Debian, Slack, Redhat,
> where speakup is already compiled in. How well do these support
> installations on older chips with only a few hundred megabytes of hard
> disk space? If they do that well--never mind this post. But, if not, let's
> not steer people wrong.
> 
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
> Installation on older computers is not advised for people who've never
> installed linux before. It's just harder, much harder, to get it
> working. For
> best results, especially if you want to listen to Real Audio and mp3s,
> you should use a Pentium system with a hard disk that has several
> gigabytes of space.
> 
> 
> 
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