Hello Terry,
> > Pentium class computer, preferrably 300 MHz and above
> > 64 MB RAM or more (the more, the better)
>
> These are wildly exaggerated requirements for Linux.
But in a lot of publications and also in a lot of user statements in the
Usenet, repeatedly, such requirements were announced.
> > So, I even was a little bit afraid if Slackware 7, which comes with 2.2.13,
> > would run on my K6-2/400 with 64 MB RAM - but it does (I am still
> > estonished).
>
> I am still happily running a current Debian distribution on my 386dx40
> machine with 32Mb of RAM. The Debian distribution still installs and
> runs in 4Mb of RAM, at least it did last time I tried.
Don't forget that Debian still comes with 2.0.x kernels (2.0.35 in slink
AFAIK) which is in fact more than enough for hobby and home users. We have a
Linux printserver with Debian 2.1 and kernel 2.0.38 running here on a 386DX40
without problems. However, the old RAM modules were critical. They caused
Linux to suddenly reboot from time to time so I had to replace them by
carefully selected ones.
Cheers,
Gerd
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Gerd Roethig
Universit�t Leipzig, Medizinische Klinik u. PK I
Johannisallee 32, 04103 Leipzig
Tel. (0341) 97 12622, Fax (0341) 97 12515
