> My
>Q800 is my NetBSD experiment box right now and it's running X Windows
>with 40MB of RAM.
And
>As always, I also recommend NetBSD/macppc as a nice, small solution.
My experience with NetBSD has been that the X windows environment is a
little easier on RAM than the bloatware X windows that ships with Linux
distros. The Linux distros care about <market share> and try to make the
desktop impressive with features. NetBSD does not worry about market share.
NetBSD gets several different architectures on one CD, while most modern
Linux distros can't squeek by with two CDs for one architecture. NetBSD may
offer good X windows performance on your 7500 as configured, but I haven't
tried it since 1.4.2.
>As others have suggested, why Linux instead of MacOS? MacOS 9 is a much
>better GUI than X-Windows ever was.
I would not recommend Mac OS 9 unless you have 64 MB of RAM. Stay with 8.6,
and make sure Netscape has at least 20 MB allocated to it for stability.
I'm sure there are people running OS9 with 32 MB of RAM, but in my
experience, I try to keep older machines on a OS release close in age the
the CPU.
A little off topic:
Any comments on the similarity of the NetBSD layout (config files,
directory structure) to the OSX BSD subsystem? Could NetBSD be a good
primer to learn a little BSD before a jump to OSX? I know OSX uses netinfo
which throws a curve ball into this discussion. I'm just starting to wrap
my head around OSX, and my Linux experience sometimes gets in the way.
Charles Dostale
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Silver Oaks Communications
http://www.silveroaks.com
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