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

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From: Rod Steel
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:00

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On 20 Nov 1996 21:50:11 GMT, the aliens once again beamed spy-rays into
Michael Wouters's brain, resulting in :

>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. 

Didn't RH 3.03 have a problem with XFree being statically linked?

Just upgraded my DX2-66 to RH4.0 this very weekend. 20meg RAM, 40meg swap
(well, it was spare - why not?), runs very nicely including X. Up until a
few months ago this machine only had 8meg RAM, and ran non-X things quite
OK. Now all I need to do is get a real monitor instead of the f%&king VGA
thing...

CYa,
	Rod.

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From: rsteel@gil.com.au (Rod Steel)
Subject: Re: is 486DX2-66 powerful  enough for Redhat 4.0?
Date: 1996/11/23
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