what are Mandrake Linux 8.1 minimum system requirements?

Max

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Jan 31, 2002, 3:03:42 PM1/31/02

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ie. cpu/ram/disk space etc.

Richard Busby

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Jan 31, 2002, 3:54:41 PM1/31/02

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Oh.
My.
God.

Never having used Mandrake in my entire life, and being a dedicated MS geek,
even *I* managed to go to Mandrake's homepage and find their supported
hardware pages:

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3

If that's too hard for you to do without asking for help, you might want to
consider using a pencil and paper rather than a computer.

Buzzy.

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> ie. cpu/ram/disk space etc.

T.N.O

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Jan 31, 2002, 6:55:56 PM1/31/02

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> My.
> God.

LOL

Max

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Jan 31, 2002, 10:58:03 PM1/31/02

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Well you are right Busby, It proves that you havent used Mandrake and
are a ms geek because I looked on the website b4 posing here and it
only has the list of hardware that is compatible with Mandrake 8.1 and
does *not* state the minimum system requirements anywhere.
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Gordon Taylor

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Jan 31, 2002, 10:33:57 PM1/31/02

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On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:03:42 +1300, Max wrote:

> ie. cpu/ram/disk space etc.

586 or better. P-200 works okay

64MB will do it in X

1GB HD for "basic" try it out install. Less is possible but you will not
experience what the Penguin can do fully.

--
Gordon
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Warren Doney

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Feb 1, 2002, 1:08:28 AM2/1/02

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Max wrote:
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> ie. cpu/ram/disk space etc.

Depends on what you want to do. If you want the latest flashy window
manager, PII or Celeron/128MB/1GIG. With a lightweight window manager, you
could get away with a pentium/64MB/500MB. With no window manager (like DOS -
lots of good apps like web browser/irc/email though) pentium/32MB/300MB.

Wraith

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Feb 1, 2002, 5:20:31 AM2/1/02

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All depends on what you want to do with it. I don't use Mandrake,
I use DeadRat but here are some guide lines for performance that
won't piss you off:

character based terminals only: 32MB, 75Mhz Pentium
X Server + FVWM2: 64MB, 133Mhz Pentium, faster the video card the better
X Server + KDE or Gnome: 128MB, again faster video card the better.

Depending on what services and apps you wish to run allow for
more RAM.

Max

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Feb 1, 2002, 5:46:44 AM2/1/02

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I have a spare PII400/64mb pc100/8gb and was thinking of trying out
Mandrake 8.1 on it, i'll probably get more ram.
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Max

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Feb 1, 2002, 5:10:14 PM2/1/02

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I want to try out both KDE and Gnome with Mandrake and I'll use this
machine for web, email, Word pro (might install StarOffice + KDE), I
have spare ram 128mb and I am going to add it to this comp which
should solve the ram problem I hope (64+128). Hopefully PC133 ram
will work with my old PC100 one.
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