Resurrecting a box for Linux

[Kurt Wall]

Also sprach Bob Raymond:
>
> On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 15:40, Net Llama! wrote:
> > Bob Raymond wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 08:25, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
> 
> > Generic memory is a bad thing.  It will generate alot more errors
> > over time, and will fail sooner.  Memory is so cheap these days that
> > any manufacturer who cuts prices more than the others is also
> > cutting quality.
> 
> But I also feel like 35 bucks for a stick of 32mb of RAM is a little
> much, and that's what a decent manufacturer such as Crucial is
> charging.  Micron's a bit better, at 12 bucks a stick.  Would that be
> cutting quality, considering Micron and Crucial are pretty much the
> same company?

I'd take Micron over Crucial any day.

> If I were to upgrade to the 128 mb (or at least 96mb) of RAM, I would
> be able to use XFCE all right, wouldn't I?  Windows 98 actually ran on
> this machine with only 16 mb of RAM, and it ran pretty much as well as
> Windows 98 is capable of running.

Lordy yes. For X performance, you get more bang out of your graphics card
than RAM, but, up to some limit that you and I aren't liable to reach on
a low-end desktop box, adding RAM never hurts. 

Kurt
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