[polymuser]

So, would Linux work well in a PII or PIII machine? Can older machines get new life with Linux?

[LTCJ]

So, would Linux work well in a PII or PIII machine? Can older machines get new life with Linux?

Absolutely. My home network has PIs and PIIs, & an AMD2800 all running late-release versions of Linux quite well.

[N3WBI3]

Like any os it depends on what you are going to do with it. I run a full webserver, mail server, ftp site, and other things but I dont run heavy graphics...

Im on a pIII 360, with 396M of ram, I am running about 4 disk in a software raid10. The thing runs great until I try to run gnome and do heavy graphics stuff. I like to use fvwm2 as my graphics layer...

If youre just running a desktop w/out all the background stuff Linux will greatly extend the life of a PC..

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Yes sir. It would work with P2's/3's, and yes older machines get new life.

Though, you might want to do a little research based on your system specs. Memory usage on my fedora box upon bootup is only around 65-70MB. Some linuxes are more light weight than others.

I myself use Fedora, which is Red Hat's community version. From what I've seen in the development notes, 4 will be lighter weight than 3 is, and have more features.

[melbell]

I assume so. Don't use pentium so I wouldn't pretend to know.