GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
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Mint Specifications

The lshw command was used to obtain the following:

mint.act.cmis.csiro.au
CPU Pentium III (Coppermine) version: 6.8.6 730MHz
    capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr 
    pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx 
    fxsr sse
Memory 254MB
PCI VGA NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro]
    capabilities: vga bus_master cap_list irq=9
PCI Network Ethernet controller 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
    capabilities: bus_master cap_list
    configuration: driver=3c59x irq=5
IDE IBM-DTLA-307015 /dev/hda 13GB
IDE NEC DV-5700A /dev/hdc 1023GB
IDE LG CD-RW CED-8080B /dev/hdd 1023GB
Multimedia 82801AA AC'97 Audio
    capabilities: bus_master
    configuration: driver=intel810_audio irq=10