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Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: Put_lead_in_gates_head ---I managed to get suse 9.1 Free edition to run on my brothers old PC with 96 MB of SIMM ram, K-6 233 MHz, and a Hercules 3D Prophet 4000 XT PCI. For some reason win XP is running faster on his machine that Suse did.

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KDE can be a bit slow, try using GNOME and if that's slow go for XFCE failing that use FluxBox.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Lot's of old machines are fine after a RAM upgrade, what processor was it?
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P1 233MHZ IIRC.
It's a pity I blew up the power suply (changed the voltage setting thing.. It was fun while it lasted (not long)) :(

toadlife:

--- Quote from: Put_lead_in_gates_head ---Like the only new feature is the new improved file veiwing stuff. Will this mean i won't be able to run lobghorn on my main gaming machine w/ a 1.466 GHz AMD Athlon XP
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From what I've read Longhorn will scale down easily machines much slower than that.

Aloone_Jonez:
So is this bullshit then?

toadlife:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---So is this bullshit then?
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Yep. The minimum requirements for all of the nice pretty animated graphics might be up there, but Microsoft has said that if you have a weak computer Longhorn will automatically turn off all of the eye candy in order to scale down. Bascially it longhorn will look just like XP/2000 if your computer is weak.

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