Quote Originally Posted by kevin05jan
I really enjoy using knoppix and I prefer having it installed on my HD on my old PC. However I wanna buy an IBM Thinkpad 600e and downgrade myself with hardwares a bit coz it will have only PII 400Mhz and 128MB. Question is:
1) will knoppix still perform fine?
2) is it better to upgrade my RAM
3) 400Mhz enough? I though the CPU isnt really that important but the RAM is.

I simply wanna use it to do my codings, some office stuff and a bit of easy statistics. Dont wanna run any tough computation - except a bit GRIM FANDANGO game maybe :O).

I need some advice and comments.

cheers

kev
I am not sure how Knoppix will perform on your proposed hardware; however, what I can say is that it performs fine on an AMD K6-400 desktop which is fairly similar in power to the PII-400. This desktop has 256Mb of ram and a 32 Mb video card (Rage XL).

I guess your thoughts of upgrading the RAM is a good one; you can never have too much RAM

From Klaus Knopper's website the minimum specs for Knoppix are as follows:

* Intel-compatible CPU (i486 or later),
* 20 MB of RAM for text mode, at least 96 MB for graphics mode with KDE (at least 128 MB of RAM is recommended to use the various office products),
* bootable CD-ROM drive, or a boot floppy and standard CD-ROM (IDE/ATAPI or SCSI),
* standard SVGA-compatible graphics card,
* serial or PS/2 standard mouse or IMPS/2-compatible USB-mouse.

So it should all work fine ...

HTH

Grant D. Vallance