I have a PC, stats of : 256 mb ram 1 ghz (integrated horrible video and sound cards), with an Intell chipset 810E ( or something of the like, not gonna open case to look at it now),
and I have a Laptop, stats of : 256 mb ram 333 mhz (ATI Rage and integrated cards), don't know about chipset.
Both of these computers are Dells (I am not rich so I couldn't afford anything better, plus I bought these used so I didn't get ripped off by marketers).
On the PC, I was able to install Fedora (C5) in graphical mode and was able to make everything work, in fact I'm typing this up on it right now (I got to tired of having to reinstall winxppro (sp2), my record was 41 times in one month, so finally decided to switch to linux, and it all works good.
On my Laptop, FC5 switches text mode after displaying a message, something of the like "Not enough ram for graphical mode", and during the software picking stage, it does not let you change which software is installed...
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2006-06-19
19:28:36
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