[ale] kernel upgrade necessary?

Joseph Knapka jknapka at earthlink.net
Mon May 12 08:53:29 EDT 2003


Preston Boyington <PBoyington at polyengineering.com> writes:

> I am running a 2.2 kernel on my old Compaq laptop.  Since it is slow and old
> will I see a benefit from a newer kernel?

Doubtful.

> Current specs:
> 	133mhz
> 	32mb ram
> 	Debian Woody 3.0
> 	Fluxbox

The single most effective thing you could do would be to add a bunch
of RAM. You should be able to get a 128MB SoDIMM for around $50.

Cheers,

-- Joe
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