On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> According to Douglas H. Ort: While burning my CPU.
> >
> > 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?
>
> Yes it should handle X ok, speed will be a slight drawback, i have never
> used a mono server but i would imagen there should be little difference
> execpt color of course.
mono is much faster than color. I have the mono server on a 386sx25
laptop with 4 meg, and it is faster than the SVGA server on my 486 laptop
(DX2/66 with 12 meg).
>
> with 12 meg 24 megs of swap is acceptable.
>
> I have a 486dx66 with 12 meg, i used to run X on it, netscape might take a
> while, +/- 15 seconds to load.
>
> My router is that machine, and has memory usage as follows after 69 days
> uptime, BTW i dont use X on it nowadays.
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 10772 9808 964 2788 2948 4576
> -/+ buffers/cache: 2284 8488
> Swap: 16316 892 15424
>
> As you see it has only 16 megs swap.
>
> >
> > Doug Ort
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > ~-----Original Message-----
> > ~From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ~[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > ~[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ~Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 6:21 AM
> > ~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ~Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ~Subject: Re: Linux for a 386
> > ~
> > ~
> > ~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.
> > ~> -------------------------------------
> > ~> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ~> Date: 26-Jun-99
> > ~> Time: 04:03:46
> > ~>
> > ~> This message was sent by Evil Hanson
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> > ~>
> > ~
> > ~
> > ~--
> > ~Regards Richard.
> > ~[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ~
> >
>
>
> --
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