On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, David Champion wrote:
> "Alain EMPAIN (home)" wrote:
> >
> > Since 2 years, we use that configuration pour professional work at our
> > library management (486 33/66, Trio64, X -> application servers)
>
> IMHO you have to be careful with claims that you can use old 486's as X
> workstations. For instance, I have an AST Premmia 4/66d with 32mb RAM,
> and an ATI Graphics Ultra (Mach 8). It's just barely useable under
> RedHat 6.0, using Gnome / E (It runs, but you have to be a very patient
> soul). It's a little faster, but still pretty pokey using just fvwm.
Indeed, this configuration is used to do administrative work, not to
experiment heavy environment (I find KDE on 32 MB very heavy : 20 MB is
swapping...)
They are running fvwm2, telnet, remote X for Applix, WP8.
Sure that a new more powerful machine would be nice, but it is a workable
solution when the credits are cut off :-{
Alain
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