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In article <alex.722415578@coombs>, alex@coombs.anu.edu.au (Alex Stivala) writes:
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> <CASTRO@FRMOP11.BITNET> writes:
>>Hi
>>I am looking for a public freeware unix system (I can't afford buying it)
>>which could support X-window using application.

> Linux with Xfree86 (you could try a "package" such as SLS) should be
> just what you want. 4 MB RAM is a bit small for X though (I have only
> 4 MB on my 386DX and find X a bit slow, but still useable).  Major ftp
> site is tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux.

> You could also try out 386BSD I suppose, I don't know much about that though.

Probably best stick with Linux.  386BSD does not yet have shared
libraries, which means that X binaries get very big very quickly.  On
a machine with more memory the difference would not be so pronounced,
but while you can get away with 4MB for Linux/Xfree86, 386BSD in 4MB
would probably be unbearably slow (although it should still function
properly; both operating systems are incredibly robust for free
software.)

Cheers,
 Stephen Tweedie.
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Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs>   (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>)
Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.