I have RedHat 9 running on a Celeron 400 (256MB RAM) here.  And I just did a drive switch-a-roo on a Celeron 800 running Fedora Core 1.  Both machines while not fast are usable and their users don't complain about the speed.  But then they probably don't know any better. :)

I must admit that FC1 on a Celeron 2.4 can be a tad slow.  Loading Mozilla takes a few seconds the first time you load it and stuff like that.

I've not had a chance to install FC2 on my P4 2.6 yet.  Maybe next week end.  Will see if it feels faster/better.

Regards

On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 19:04, Matthias Dallmeier wrote: 
Craig Box wrote:

> There's a long standing belief that Linux can be used to revitalise old 
> hardware.  Short of using a terminal server of some description (which 
> wasn't an option in this case), is this true?

What makes Linux so suitable for running on ancient hardware is that it
gives you the option not to waste valuable system resources running a
graphical user interface on your firewall. Obviously that is not an
option for a desktop system and you are likely to find that Windows 98SE
performs a whole lot better than a recent Linux distribution running
GNOME or KDE. Anyone who thinks that Linux will magically turn their old
486 into an Athlon is dreaming. I did find that unlike Fedora Core 1
(2.4 kernel), Fedora Core 2 (2.6 kernel) actually feels a lot more
responsive on my 2.4GHz P4 than Windows XP though...

  -- Matthias

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