I'm being given an old Thinkpad 500 (monochrome, 486-50). It's been maxed
out to 12 megs of RAM, but it has a new HD (4 gig). So there's a CPU limit
and a RAM limit but not a hard drive limit.
Can a machine like this handle X? Any recommends on swap file size? And
any limits with X on a monochrome screen?
Doug Ort
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~Subject: Re: Linux for a 386
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~According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While burning my CPU.
~>
~> Hello!
~>
~> I was kind of wondering if any one knew of a Linux dis that
~would run on a 386
~> with 4 mb of ram.
~>
~
~Basicly any distro, the minimum requirments for linux is 386 with 4 meg,
~however you will not be able to run in X as that realy requires a miniumum
~of 8 meg.
~
~The biggest problem will be the speed of apps, and the fact that quite
~possably you will have disk space problems so you will need to be pikky
~about what you install.
~
~I still have a 386 with 4 meg running linux at our local radio club, it has
~a 80 meg disk which is 80% full. The swap space on that machine is only 8
~meg.
~
~What you can do is just install a base system and add programs as you need
~them, all distro's have some sort of package manager so command line
~installing is no problem.
~
~
~> I have an old laptop lying around and would like to have some
~fun with it.
~>
~> Thanks
~> Will
~>
~> PS: If you could please respond to my email address and not just
~the list. I
~> have not been receiving mail from the list lately.
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~Regards Richard.
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