Slackware Better in Old or Semi-old computer

[lordmorg]

One of my friends was looking into slackware and found out that the System Requirements was the following:

486 processor
16MB RAM (32MB suggested)
100-500 megabytes of hard disk space for a minimal and around 3.5GB for full install

I was wondering if this is the same for the newer slackware 10.2.

In addition, he has two computers that he has. One of them:

P2 266 mhz
64 Ram
10 gb

the other:

P3 566 mhz
128 ram
20 gb

Which one is where better for slackware.

[heartsmagic]

It does not change so much for 10.2, it is Slackare.
You can use Slackware on both of them but you cant use a Desktop Manager like KDE. It will be so slow. If ı were you i choose second machine. It is better than the first one. You can use XFCE.
But for what you are planning or your friend to use this machine?

[bidi]

I run Slackware 10.2 on w/ XFce on a P3 450Mhz, 128MB RAM with no problem, so I have no doubt the second machine will be good. It might be hard getting decent speed out of the first since it doesn't have a lot of memory.

As for the low system requirements, almost all base installs (doesn't matter which distro) will be around the same. The Debian documentation say "Debian does not impose hardware requirements beyond the requirements of the Linux kernel and the GNU tool-sets." The problem with the base installs is that they don't come with anything useful. You usually only get the things described as "required" by the FHS, nothing more.

[deek]

Kinda seems like an odd post...just meaning, why would anyone think that any distro would run better on lesser hardware?