[thelist] linux hardware

David McCreath wrote:
> 
> > No. StarOffice is fat fat fat.. weighing in at something like 100-200Mb
> > itself, a default RH install is around 450 as well, so you're SOL pretty
> > much :) Also, enlightenment(which comes with RH 6.0) is pretty fat
> > itself, and will take a good amount of RAM and a decent video card..
> 
> So add a new HD to the list. And some RAM. Now we're getting into some money
> (for a newly-single-income family)and I guess the primary question at this
> point is, what level of perfomance can I expect from a P100? Realistically,
> I'm mostly going to be using this for browsing, email, and maybe some
> office-type stuff, like word-processing. And possibly learning some about
> Apache, etc, but like I said, that's frosting.
> 
> Obviously, you can't have too much processor speed, HD space, or RAM, but
> for a decent little second machine, is the P100 going to do it? At what
> point have I spent too much money on this particular box? Intel makes some
> kind of OverDrive chip that will take it up to 200MHz, but that's another
> $130. (Plus OverDrive chip sounds like something Dr. Lizardo would make to
> foil Buckaroo Banzai.;p)

200Mhz isn't worth 130 bux0rz.. (just a side note, but I got 2 new p2
450's last week for about 135 bux each, so dont waste money :) 200Mhz
also wouldnt make that big a dent in things..

Your P100 should do just fine, actually. I would recommend using a
smaller window manager than enlightenment such as icewm, fvwm, or any of
the 23423432 others :)

So ya, it might be a bit slow, but if you get a new HD(even just a GB),
you'll be in the money :)

Yell if you have any more questions.. 

.djc.