FAQ gally2: System Requirements

[Chris Nestrud]

That's a good point. I wonder what the lowest usable system is. Can't
you play mp3's with a P90? Anything that can run win95 and a
resource-intensive assistive technology package and still be usable
should be fine. <grin>

Chris


On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:56:44PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Good suggestion, Chris. Should it be "newer Windows system?" I'm thinking
> there are still folks out  there with Win 3.11 and Win 95 on boxes with
> only megabytes of hd.
>  On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Chris Nestrud wrote:
> 
> > 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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