system requirements for red hat 8.0

[Alex Snow]

Well I just put slack8.1 on a pentium 75 or is it 100 and it runs fine.  And
that's a "old" machine, it does have pci slots though.
Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Buddy Brannan" <davros at ycardz.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: system requirements for red hat 8.0


> Uhh. If you can't get GNU/Linux running on that...I'll eat my
> hat. Which I won't have to do...I like my hat...No problem with that
> hardware.
>
> 200/300MHz processors are plenty fast enough. You can get a GNU/Linux
> system on a 386...but...any ol' Pentium will do nicely. 32MB is nice,
> 64MB is nicer, and depending on how creative you wanna be, you can get
> a system into a fairly small space...but any system with a P2 or P3
> likely has at least a couple gig HDD...plenty of room. I believe
> official spec still says at least a 386, at least 8MB RAM (may require
> 16MB these day)...drive space is pretty variable depending on what you
> want. Still, with the hardware you propose, you ought not have any
> problems.
>
> BTW, don't knock those "old" systems. ... Both desktops here are "old"
> (a P2/450...or is it a P3/450? Anyway) and a AMD K6-2/350. Laptop is
> the newest and fastest machine I own...I actually also have a P133 I
> want to put GNU/Linux on, but not sure about the four-disc changer I
> have in it.
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