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In article <ericb.450.301CECDB@psu.edu>, ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) writes:
>In article <danpop.807144468@rscernix> Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
>
>>In <ericb.437.301BD9B0@psu.edu> ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) writes:
>
>>>I would like to have the chance to use X sometime.  The two people I know who 
>>>run Linux have 4 and 8 megs of RAM respectivley, and both have 386s.  Not 
>>>good for running X :(
>
>>Pretty good for running X.  My notebook has 8 megs too and has been 
>>running X for the last two years without any problems.
>
>Certainly not the 4 meg machine.  The guy with 8 does have X installed, but he 
>can't run more than one or two X programs without bogging down with swapping.

What do you expect?  Does he run all of M$ Office without swapping?  Heck
Word 6.0 alone would probably make it swap.  I'm never run Linux+X on
a 8 mb machine but I've got friends who do.  Both of my Linux boxes have
16 mb ram.

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Ravi
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