In the spirit of try it and see, I loaded<br>Knoppix V3.6 on a 10 year old ASUS<br>P55T2P4 motherboard with a 166MHz<br>Pentium processor, and 192MB of RAM.<br><br>Works fine. It's fast, in the context of a <br>166 MHz CPU. And even while the BIOS<br>
on the motherboard only supports an 8.4 GB<br>drive, I can hang an arbitrarily large <br>external drive with a USB interface on it <br>and use it.<br><br>Knoppix V3.6 uses a 2.4 kernel. So far<br>I've gotten no distribution using a 2.6<br>
kernel to produce a working mouse. That<br>includes PS-2 and serial mice. I haven't<br>tried a USB mouse yet. Otherwise,<br>newer distributions do load, and I can <br>use everything except the mouse by using <br>line commands and screen position keys.<br>
<br>I don't think the motherboard and memory<br>meet the minimum requirements for running<br>Knoppix.........<br><br> -- Bob<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:25 PM, John-Thomas Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 03:10:35PM -0500, Lee Forest wrote:<br>
<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> requirements were alittle higher then Ubuntu's, but in reality I'm not<br>
> noticing a big difference on my 700mhz processor, with 512 ram. Tho I<br>
<br>
</div>That's a nice bit of Linux evangelism: the latest Linux on old hardware.<br>
Excellent.<br><font color="#888888"> <br>
john-thomas<br>
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than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own<br>
company.<br>
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