Well, this machine now has PC3200 memory installed, and it still works just fine. So I guess even MUCH faster SDRAM still works slowly!

As for software, I've struggled for a week with Fedora Core2 on it, and eventually gave up (db4 was just too much trouble), and am now ditching the works in favour of Debian Sid ("unstable"). We'll see how that goes..

The problem with Fedora Core2 is that the Via C3 CPU is missing the "CMOV" instruction -- otherwise it implements a full i686 style core. But too many glitches in Fedora due to packages compiled for the full i686 instruction set.. Actually, I fixed most of them, but then got totally hung up on DB4 (needed for email servers and the like..).

Cheers