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I'm seting up an older computer.

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The pc has a 32 or 64 mb graphics card, a 450mHz CPU, and 192mb of ram.

Thiank it will run OK?

If not can someone suggest an OS that has a good free newsreader out for it.

Thnaks. 🙂
 
I have Debian running on almost the same computer - the GUI is a bit slow to load but overall it works quite well.
 
It will run, but it will be a bit slow. XP likes more RAM than that, but it will work.

My brother bought a crap eMachine with an Athlon XP 2300+ and 128MB of RAM running XP Home. The video card took 32MB of the RAM so it was running XP on 96MB. My God it was slow but it worked.
 
Any free unix will be fine, just disable all the servers you don't need, and run a lightweight GUI setup (not GNOME or KDE).

It would be a dog with Windows XP; the CPU isn't fast enough for it.
 
I've installed W2K on a P200 w'256mb and XP Pro on a Cyrix300 w'384mb (both had a Creative blaster 8mb GPU) and a 4.2Gb HDD

both ran fine - albeit a little slow on startup, fine for basic office aps and web surfing
 
At my work, we still have some PCs that are Pentium 166s with 128meg of ram and 4meg video cards running Windows 2000 in public positions(Internet/Email/searching). We do use Citrix to take some of the load off of the PCs themselves for other apps like Office, but the PCs have been running fine for years.

 
linux with a lightweight GUI, such as fluxbox or XFCE4. I run Gentoo w/XFCE4 and it never hits the swap file.
 
I would personally choose XP since that machine is fast enough if you turn off CPU or RAM consuming programs. It is generally just easier for PnP devices and new hardware IMO. Problem is, you'll probably want a firewall and antivirus, so check the Software thread for RAM usage; only use programs that are very light. And protect with a limited access acount, that doesn't cost any performance penalty.
 
I have to laugh at some of these posts.....It's obvious this won't be the fastest computer possible no matter what OS is used. Why not go the easiest route with XP? It supports the most hardware....drivers can usually be found for older hardware much easier than any Linux brand, etc.

I've had XP on machines with much less horsepower, such as a P-Pro 200 with 128mg ram. Ran just fine, but guess what....slower than a 3.2 Northwood with 1gb ram. So what?
 
Originally posted by: Bluefront
I have to laugh at some of these posts.....It's obvious this won't be the fastest computer possible no matter what OS is used. Why not go the easiest route with XP? It supports the most hardware....drivers can usually be found for older hardware much easier than any Linux brand, etc.

I've had XP on machines with much less horsepower, such as a P-Pro 200 with 128mg ram. Ran just fine, but guess what....slower than a 3.2 Northwood with 1gb ram. So what?
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lol....the easiest route is XP? XP supports most hardware? Ever try to install XP on your SATA drive without going old school and busting out your floppy disks? Linux has much better support for newer tech, like SATA. Really, if you just want a box to surf the web or use as a newsreader, go linux with a lightweight GUI.
 
Humm...have you read the specs on this older computer? It won't be using SATA or Raid....probably already has a floppy drive. This is a four year old computer....at least. XP might have drivers for everything on the board, including the video card.
 
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