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This is a discussion on my friend living in stone age## help him within the Desktop Computer forums, part of the Computer technology category; my friend have a comp. configuration celeron 1.6 ghz ram 256 atx cabinet crt monitor he want to upgrade it ...
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10-07-08, 03:55 PM
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Rep Power: 2  |  my friend living in stone age## help him my friend have a comp. configuration celeron 1.6 ghz ram 256 atx cabinet crt monitor he want to upgrade it but with very less amount of money.... how he will..... help him...... |
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10-07-08, 04:25 PM
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Rep Power: 12 |  The best thing to do would be not spend any money atall on this machine and switch to Linux OS for the time being if he is not willing to buy a new one just yet. Linux will take up a lot less resources and the same machine will feel faster then ever before... and thats if he is not already using linux  And save his money so he can buy a better machine in future Last edited by Admin; 10-07-08 at 04:25 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost |
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10-07-08, 04:29 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | thankz |
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10-07-08, 05:12 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | Really! even obsolete (sorry for the term) can be run faster by Linux? I wonder how? I also mean Linux therefore is wonderful |
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10-07-08, 10:55 PM
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Rep Power: 2  | Linux doesn't take bulk of your resources for system jobs Correct me if am wrong.. |
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10-07-08, 11:01 PM
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Rep Power: 11   | ohhh i can see that our admin is loving linux... yes i was about to say this and this is the best thing you can advice to your friend is to switch to linux otherwise if he do not like linux or need windows only then windows 2000 can help a lot |
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10-08-08, 10:24 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | Linux on 256 MB of RAM ? New versions of Linux recommends a minimum of 512 MB Ram. I think he should install Windows 2000. Admin is right that rohitbarjatya's friend should start saving money and buy a new CPU all together. |
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10-08-08, 10:45 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | Damn Small Linux It can run happily with 256MB ram without any issues. |
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10-08-08, 11:31 PM
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Rep Power: 12 | Even Ubuntu would run well on this box.. 512 is recomended but you can strip down functions to make your experience better. |
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10-09-08, 12:41 AM
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Fedora core is way better than Windows 2000 and its fully free! | |
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10-13-08, 06:29 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | @ShAdOwCoN Thanks for the info. Didn't know about it. |
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10-18-08, 04:46 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | Dont even think about Fedora Core. Its slow even on P4 2.0GHz with 512 MB RAM |
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10-18-08, 11:44 PM
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Rep Power: 3 | WHAT R U TALKIN ABOUT........... just buy a new pc. from what i gather u already have a monitor. u will only need theese things-- a mobo,processor, min 512 mb ram,80gb hdd(get rid of the old one, u will see a huge increase in performance by shedding old hdd alone),smps, cabinet. these days avg grade pc parts r so cheap that it wont hurt u at all. SO GO FOR THE THINGS I SAID. Have a good day. |
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10-30-08, 04:25 AM
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 I have seen it run in systems with 128 mb ram p4 ...speed must have been around 2 Ghz | |
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11-03-08, 03:30 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | I didn't say it dosen't run on such a machine. I just said that it'll be very slow. Even opening a terminal might take around 5-10 seconds, don't even ask about firefox whihc would takes even more time, This makes it almost unusable. Quote:
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11-03-08, 11:47 PM
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