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Article #47723Re: Minimum Hardware for Linux
From: Justin Hawkins
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 00:00
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fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson) writes:
> >>> My old computer is a 486 DX33 with 16 meg of Ram and about 330 meg of HDD.
> >>> Is this enough?
>
> That depends on what you want to do with it.
>
> I have an old 386-DX 33MHz with 4M of RAM and 120M of HDD, and it still works
> just fine for what I use it for. But I'm really only using it as not much
> more than a glorified vt100.
Bah.
Try a 386sx-16 laptop with 4M of RAM and a 60MB HD.
Even got emacs on there. It works.
That spec is just about a bare minimum. I don't think any new
distribution will install in 4M (that was Slackware 3.4, 3.5
definately doesn't). You could make a usable (I mean 'working
single-purpose') box with less HD than that but it wouldn't install
any general distribution.
- Justin
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