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Just built myself an old PC out of spare parts. It seems to run Linux slow (It's my first install-Mandrake 10.1/KDE 3.2). By that I mean when loading software it seems to take much, much longer than my Windows machine. I'm running it on a 700 Celeron with 160meg of memory witha 60Gig HD.
Try using a less graphic-intensive window manager such as Fluxbox, XFCE, or IceWM - that'll have a big impact on performance. You should have no problem running Linux on that machine, though - I've comfortably run KDE on a 300mhz machine with 128MB RAM, but unless you really need all that eye-candy, a lighter desktop environment would probably be better.
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of memory witha 60Gig HD.
