On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Sai kee Wong wrote:

> > I would strongly recommend NOT installing osX with
> only 80 megs of
> > RAM.  You will have more trouble with it than
> anything.  Besides,
> > I think the bare requirements are a G3 with 128 megs
> of RAM.  I
> 
> As I said, I feel the OS X running on G3/266/160MB is
> good.  Don't
> know 32MB less (128MB) makes so much difference.  And
> I remember
> someone posted the pre OS X running on 2400c/G3/80 was
> tolerable.

I run OS 9 on a Duo2300 that I have and it runs great.  You can try the X
on the machine, but I don't think that you will care for it.  

> 
> > installed it with 128 Megs of RAM and really didn't
> like it.  It
> > was slow on my G3.  So I put 512 Megs of RAM in and
> it works like
> > a champ.  Ram is important to OSX.  I would
> recommend staying with
> > OS9 though.
> 
> Then may be OS8.6 is even better.  But, after using
> Mac and NeXT for
> that many years, I appreciate Mac's design as well as
> its file
> system.  For better future, I would prefer to stick
> myself more to
> Unix based system.  With 2400c/G3/320MHz/80MB RAM, and
> 1.5 hrs of
> life on the road, I would not expect it to run like a
> champ, just
> want to have a portable system (4.4 lb) and consistent
> with my G4 at
> home.  So long as the speed is tolerable, I will
> consider, and may
> even up it to 112MB if possible.
> 

If you are looking for something Unix based you might try yellow dog
linux.  I have had good luck with it.

Jon
> SK
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