fedora and nepernicus x-window system requirements

[Alex Snow]

Or I could be that the gnome accessibility stuff has some bugs in it 
that consume resources. bc I've seen 486's run gnome pretty well.
On Thu, 
Dec 25, 2003 at 08:12:13PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Yeah, I think my Thinkpad is more sluggish with Gnopernicus than it
> should be. Not sure what's up with that. It's snappy enough with
> Microsoft Win, so maybe there are optimizations regarding the gui that
> need doing which I just don't know about.
> 
> Alex Snow writes:
> > From: Alex Snow <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> > 
> > I run fedora on a pentium II with 256mb ram and it runs ok. i used to 
> > even have it running on a pentium 133 with 160mb ram and that was 
> > still kind of usable.
> > 
> > almost anything will run the linux console fine. I started out with a 
> > pentium 120 with 16mb ram and it was fine for most things except for 
> > compiling software.
> > On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 07:47:58PM -0500, Janina 
> > Sajka wrote:
> > > Your system will run the Linux console splendidly. It may not be snappy
> > > with Gnopernicus, but then neither is my 2 Gb Pentium system snappy with
> > > Gnopernicus. You must understand that Gnopernicus is still very new and
> > > unfinished.
> > > 
> > > Jared writes:
> > > > From: "Jared" <jared-stofflett at twmi.rr.com>
> > > > 
> > > > I have a system with a 501 celleron mhz processor, and 256 megs of ram. Will
> > > > this be enough to run fedora and nepernicus with speach on? Appreciate any
> > > > info.
> > > > 
> > > > 
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> 
> Director, Technology Research and Development
> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
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