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Old 02-19-2008, 11:59 AM
Michael Black
 
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Default Re: Hardware requirement for running Slackware + VMware

Lew Pitcher (lpitcher@sympatico.ca) writes:
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> Thomas Hansen wrote:
> | I have a laptop with 1,3GHz Celeron M processor and 512MB RAM. Is this
> | configuration "strong" enough to run a workstation with Slackware and
> | Windows XP as guest OS in VMWare?
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> You could easily run Slackware 9.1 on a 120MHz Pentium with 16Mb of ram. I
> think a 1.3 GHz Celeron with 512Mb ram is more than enough for Slackware.
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I was going to say "surely you jest" to the original poster, but then
I caught the big about VMWare and running Windows, and I know nothing
about such things.

Obviously, one can use fairly primitive hardware to run Slackware (or
Linux for that matter).

Michael

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