How does the relationship of release of Slackware relate to hardware capability of a PC?

What I mean to ask is, in general, I presume a 10 year old PC is likely to have difficulty running 13.37 and might be better off with an earlier release or am I wrong?

My current PC is 5 years old and has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800 processor and 2MB of RAM. It manages fine with Slackware 64 13.0. I have installed 13.37 on another partition but not decided whether to move to it or not. One thing I was wondering was - is 13.37 more demanding of resources for my ageing PC or could it be on the contrary - the newer kernel is actually more efficient and and less demanding of resources?

Alan

Slackware 13.37 runs very well on old hardware and new hardware. I'm running 13.37 on a PIII 866 MHz IBM with 320 MB RAM, an IBM Celeron 850 MHz with 768 MB RAM, and a Dell 2.80 GHz Intel Dual Core unit with 2 GB RAM. I'm running Slackware-current on my other Intel dual core box.

It is in most cases not the kernel that slows a machine down, but the applications and the desktop environment you are using. A 10 year old PC should run fine with 13.37, if you use Fluxbox and lightweight applications. You don't want to run KDE 4 on such a machine, since it is really a resource hog.
I am currently trying to install Linux to an iMac G3 400MHz with 512MB RAM, and I would be glad if there would be a recent release of Slackware for PowerPC. Sadly, it isn't, so I think I will go for Frugalware.

So short answer: Have a look that you don't run resource hogs and you will be fine with 13.37 and an old computer.

My older units run XFce just fine, but, Flux would indeed be faster on older hardware.

Well I do run KDE so that might be the sticking point.

I am currently running 4.3.1 in Slackware 13.0

I did notice in 13.37 KDE that the cursor seemed to move slower when using left and right buttns in konsole. Could that be a resource issue?

If you have 2 GB of RAM on your unit then KDE in 13.37 will run just fine. XFce will run even better.

Slack64 13.37 + enlightenment (E17) seems to be faster for me than 13.1. This is on a five year old laptop - Core 2 Duo T7200, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS w/ 512 MB RAM, blah, blah, blah.

Running Slackware 13.37 on a PIII 733 Mhz IBM with 256 MB RAM HDD 10 GB without problem(after BIOS upgrade)