On 20 Jan, Gerd wrote:
> But in a lot of publications and also in a lot of user statements in the
> Usenet, repeatedly, such requirements were announced.
You're not cynical enough about mainstream press.
Those sorts of configurations might be recommended by distributions for
"typical" user configurations .. where typical means "I want XFree86
and to run office type applications". But they do not accurately
represent minimum platform requirements.
> 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.
Gerd,
I'm a Debian developer, I'm not running slink.
regards
Terry
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
