Kent West wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:51:55 -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: > > > > >Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pentium. Does > > > > Huh??? > > > > Netscape 4.51 is everything else but slow. You probably simply have too > > little memory. I suggest to install at least 128 megs. > > Ya know, we really oughtta quit advertising the idea that Linux runs well > on 486's with low memory and drive resources....
Why? I'm writing this on a 486DX/33/16Mb (it's normally a 486DX4/120 but that CPU died a couple of days ago). Netscape 4.5 is running on it right now. I wouldn't consider running X on it with less memory, and I'm seriously considering beefing it up to 32Mb, but it seems to me that Linux runs "well" on it, for my personal subjective definition of "well". I try not to run too many memory-hungry tasks at once, and I'm keeping well away from 2.2.x series kernels until they fix whatever dreadful thing was done to memory management. BTW, I run a 3-line micro-ISP on a 486DX2/66/32Mb, and I recently installed Debian 2.1 on my old Amiga 2000/030 just because I could. 5 Bogomips and 5Mb of RAM. Smokin'. -- Home Page: <URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: <URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/scn/>
