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> "H. Adrin Story" <adrin at haswes.homelinux.org> writes:
> 
> > currently runing a apache server, email, desktop workstation and ftp
> > on one machine.  Probably a few other things  also. Hey, it is just a
> > learning tool/toy.   I just wonder at what point will I start to
> > notice something.  By the way it is just a 850MHz machine .
> 
<<snip>>
> As another data point, the machine I'm writing this on is a 233MHz
> PentiumII laptop with 196MB of RAM. I am absolutely delighted with
> this machine's performance under Linux. I keep Emacs and Mozilla (with
> about ten browser tabs) open *always*. I often also have a couple of
> Xpdf viewers, a Gimp or a SodiPodi, and perhaps a Maelstrom or
> FrozenBubble window.  The machine rarely even hesitates when switching
> apps. It's running RedHat 8, though I may upgrade it to Fedora
> sometime.

I'll drop another data point as close as possible to that one. 233MHz 
tower, serving nfs to a mini-network, local desktop apps, postfix email, 
printer server. Runs fine, stays up normally until I decide to perform 
some odd sort of surgury.

FWIW

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