On Wed, 5 May 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
RO>>My aspirations are to have a small LAN at home with several machines
RO>>hanging off a 10BaseT 'Ethernet' mini-hub, including one dedicated to the
RO>>local Amateur Radio packet network. Off the hub: under WIN 95, the children
RO>>would have a slowish 486, my wife and I would have another slow 486 for our
RO>>studies; under Linux 386 machine for me to play with; under Win 3.1 or
RO>>Linux I'd have a radio packet 286/386 connected; we'd share a printer with
RO>>its own print-server card... (and the fairies at the end of the garden
RO>>could also have one too.) I have hardware for all that.
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RO>Linux on a 386? While this will work, it is pretty limiting (I wouldn't try
Oh, yeah... that's the best way to put the 20 pounder to work! =) Linux
runs pretty good on a 386.
RO>to run Xwindows, for example) ... these days, I rarely see Linux 386s, and
RO>the ones I hear about serve very limited, dedicated roles. Linux *won't* run
Router, home email server, and small things like that. Even for personal
use on everything, w/o X, it's pretty good.
RO>on 286s (actually, I didn't remember that Win3.1 will). I don't really know
It did, but it was shitty.
RO>how well RH runs on a 386, though there are smaller, specialized versions of
RO>Linux that still run nicely, for limited purposes. (Look at some of the
RO>small distributions at ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/, for example.)
RO>
Red Hat is OK on a 386 DX at 33MHz, if you can live with all textmode...
Like you mentioned earlier, XFree86 (or any implementation of the X Window
System) is a real bitch to wait for on a 386. It is somewhat so on my
486... if it were faster on my 486, I'd use runlevel 5 all the time ... =)
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Wednesday, May 05, 1999
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