Re: is 486DX2-66 powerful enough for Redhat 4.0?

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From: Michael Wouters
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:00

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I presently have a 486DX2-66 + 8M which has been happliy running
Linux + X for 2 1/2 years now. When I made a long overdue upgrade
to RH 3.03 though I noticed that various things had gotten bigger
and that 8M was only just enough memory - there is quite  a bit  of
swapping if you're trying to run more than one big X app. You'll
definitely need a 20 M swap partition. However, the system is still
useable with 8 M RAM. That said I'm off today to buy 16 M of RAM ( I
can't believe I paid $280 for 4M only 2 1/2 years ago - or for that
matter $120 for 16K for my ZX81).


Michael W.
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From: mjw@Physics.usyd.edu.au (Michael Wouters)
Subject: Re: is 486DX2-66 powerful  enough for Redhat 4.0?
Date: 1996/11/20
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