[plug] Minimum spec's for Mandrake 9

[Richard Meyer]

I doubt that you'd get much joy with X with KDE or Gnome. It should run
happily without X, but I presume that the point of the exercise is to
demonstrate a "better Windows than Windows". Maybe one of the other
"lighter" environments will be usable

RichardM

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                      "David Buddrige"                                                                                              
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Hi all you Mandrake guys out there... 8-)

My brother was wanting to load up Linux on a spare computer he has to play
with it, and check out what it's like.  The spec's on the hardware he has
is:

Pentium II (233 to 333 MHz) system with about 128 Mb RAM and between 7-13
gig of hard-drive.

I had planned to suggest Mandrake 9; I've been a redhat guy in the past,
but
with the UI of Redhat 8, I suspect it might be a bit sluggish;  Will the
above spec's be sufficiently powerful to happily run Mandrake 9?

thanks

David