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In <3422@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> iks@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Ivan K. Samuelson) writes:

>I am wanting to acquire LINUX for DOS, but I'm not sure what files I need.
>I have a 386-SX/33mhz machine with 2megs of memory. I have heard that Linux
>is a Unix operating system for IBM machines and offers excellent multi-
>tasking capabilities. I have found the files for LINUX, but what are the
>files I need to start the system up and running?

>Also, what are some good applications to get with it? Is there X-Windows
>for Linux?


Ivan,  Please go to comp.os.linux and read the FAQ when it appears there.
It is posted about every week.  You can run X windows on your system, but
it would be very slow and probably not worth it.

I am on a 386/25, with 8 megs of RAM, and X win was fast.. But picture
viewing (gif, jpg, etc) was slow because of all the overhead.  It just
takes too long.  20 seconds to view a 640x480x256 GIF!  With a 486 this
time is trimmed to 5 seconds.  

That's just my experience, I may have had it configured poorly (doubt it).

They recommend at least 8 megs of RAM for x win.  If you want to just peddl
with the unix like utils, 2 meg may be enough.  But for compiling you need
at least 4 megs.
 
-- 
Bryan Woodworth <bryanw@rahul.net>