Are you guys trying to give me a complex? I've been running on a DXII/66
for over three years. I deleted OS/2 nd Win 3.x about a year ago and now
devote 800+ MB to linux rather than 400 MB. I upgraded from 8 to 16 MB
of RAM and from from kernel 1.2.11 to 2.0.34 via Redhat 5.1. Using 36
Megs of swap. I have no probs running three X sessions at the same time.
A load of 2 Netscape Communicators, a WordPerfect, half dozen x-terms,
RealAudio and xv while connected to the 'net via modem is not uncommon.
If I devote the 3rd X-session to x-boing, I can play that with no
noticeable slowdown. DosEMU (Ihave a 50 mb DOS partition for my baseball
game) in a console however, will slow down a single X session. This is a
standalone machine.
Guess what I'm trying to say is ... yep, you can do it, but agree with
the more HD space suggestion.
Barry
- Barry Selk Calgary AB CA -
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
:As other have already told you, the system is just fine for a starter Linux
:system. I use a 150 meg Pentium (but with 96 megs and a 3 gig HD) day in,
:day out. No problems with text consoles, X, ppp, Netscape ... the usual
:bland assortment of everyday stuff.
:
:Splitting the hard disk will be fine for the Linux side of things. (Though
:my HD is bigger, my Linux installation only takes up about 300 megs.)
:Remember to allow space for a swap partition, though. Whether Windows will
:get by in less space ... well, you'd do better to ask that of a Windows
:group, I suppose. (I do have a separate Win95 system, with Office 95, the MS
:compiler set, and some statistical apps on it, plus a lot of local stuff -
:it uses about 1.2 gigs of disk space.)
:
:Whatever distribution you decide on, do install the current version -- for
:RH, that's 5.2.
:
:At 08:37 AM 2/16/99 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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:> I've got a 133MHz Pentium (bog standard, 2 1/2 yr old) 32 Mb RAM and
:> HD as mentioned above. If I split the hard drive into two partitions
:> (one for DOS/Win and the other for Linux) would this give me enough
:> space/power to have a good old toy around before I decide to splash
:> out on a new HD purely for Linux ? If I *do* decide to go for a new
:> HD, how big should it be ? Is the PC as it stands good enough to run
:> Linux/X and actually be useable ?
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:Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
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