[SWLUG] Alans machines

Dave Cridland dave at cridland.net
Wed Sep 13 11:09:55 UTC 2006


On Wed Sep 13 10:45:56 2006, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> Ar Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:59:57AM +0100, ysgrifennodd Andrew 
> Sprott:
> > A few months ago Alan gave us two of his dual-core computers. 
> They haven't got
> > a lot of RAM and are pretty much wasted with Windows, but they 
> don't work
> > very well with Ubuntu.
> > > Is there a modern compact distro that would be suitable for 
> these machines?
> 
> We were running Fedora on both. I'm not sure that you would now be
> able to (re)install Fedora on the 64Mb RAM one without some messing
> about (ie text install, minimum install, stick yum on it, yum update
> anything vital), but it ought to go back onto the 128Mb box fine. 

What flavour memory do they take? I have some old-skool SDR DIMMs.

Dave.
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