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  1. 03-22-2010 #1
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    Hi,
    Is it fine to setup one PC in Redhat/Suse Lunix using the captioned hardware configuration?

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    I think you may need to be a bit more specific but generally speaking there is no reason why it wouldn't run. I ran many distributions on a pair of Pentium IV processors I had without much trouble. What you may need to do though is ensure you have plenty of RAM if you are running a recent distribution. Just last week I rescued a P4 box - I loaded Ubuntu on it and it was a bit sluggish. I was going to run maybe Xubuntu but I checked and it only had 128MB of RAM. I pulled out a 1GB DIMM of the correct spec I had handy and dropped it in and the machine ran really well. It booted as fast as most machines and ran fine with a few applications open including Firefox and Rhythmbox.
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    usually processors aren't the problem, it's memory, as long as you have 512m or more you should be able to run just about any distro
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