running applications on a 1ghz machine

[G.I.Josh]

With the exception of things like Unreal Tournament, will the majority of Linux applications run fine on a 1ghz machine? One with plenty of ram that is.

[gwalters]

I have a 522 Mhz machine with 376 megs of mem. Everything runs great. It idles around 3% usage w/ X and 4 terms, gkrellm, xchat, and 3 IM progs.

[stathisx]

as gwalters said you won't have problem to run applications in that machine..swap is helping to increase performance though..

[Benny8909]

Compiling a new kernel also increases speed and stability

[stathisx]

it will surely will but it will take some more time to do so than in a newer pc which has more ram and better processor..

[Muser]

lol, i have a PIII 500 Mhz and only 256MB RAM and I get by just fine.

[gwalters]

..swap is helping to increase performance though..

Bah, who needs swap? I dont even have a swap partition. Once i mounted a file as swap, it didnt get used at all.

[stathisx]

it increases performance if ram of the system is low (swap should be approximately 2*ram)..although i didn't have problem either..(my ram is 1gb ddr 400)

[Benny8909]

I have 1.5GB DDR 266

[stathisx]

i think it's not very much..