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Linux For Older PC Hardware
Aug 21, 2007, 08 :15 UTC (12 Talkback[s]) (7998 reads)

"At Phoronix we are constantly running Linux benchmarks with quad-core and even octal-core systems with more than enough RAM and all of the latest and greatest hardware from the chipsets to the graphics cards. However, with an increasing number of new Linux users trying out Linux for the first time on their old computers, we have been asked to conduct some benchmarks using popular desktop Linux distributions on older hardware. We have done just that as we try out Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, and SimplyMEPIS with an old Intel Northwood system..."

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As usual, These guys test the wrong thin ...   As usual   
Luciano
Aug 21, 2007, 09:18:20
 
Older hardware ...... They didn't ma ...   Older...!   
Jaster
Aug 21, 2007, 11:01:24
 
> Older hardware ...> ... They didn' ...   Re: Older...!   
cjm
Aug 21, 2007, 13:19:01
 
Now we're in for the "Old Hardware C ...   "Older hardware" ???   
Dale Pontius
Aug 21, 2007, 13:41:51
 
Try some really old hardware on for size ...   Really old hardware   
Keith Elster
Aug 21, 2007, 14:48:08
 
Indeed. All the 'differences' in ...   Re: As usual   
Adam Williamson
Aug 21, 2007, 15:45:23
 
"2 x 512MB of DDR-400 memory". Seriously ...   I stopped reading at...   
André Paquet
Aug 21, 2007, 18:32:37
 
I have a 833Mhz P3 running Mandriva with ...   Old machines   
philc
Aug 21, 2007, 21:54:50
 
I use a 866Mhz P3, 512MB running MEPIS 6 ...   PuppyLinux 2.16   
Fred Finster WB7ODY
Aug 22, 2007, 07:44:38
 
> I use a 866Mhz P3, 512MB running MEPIS ...   Re: PuppyLinux 2.16   
Hal
Aug 22, 2007, 23:35:20
 
I started running Debian on a Cyrix 166  ...   even older   
Arthur Marsh
Aug 25, 2007, 14:37:50
 
The above just confuses the hell outta m ...   HU? I'm confused   
Chris Mills
Aug 25, 2007, 22:44:39
 
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