Seeking X-Windows Unix for i486dx50

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3 total messages Started by CASTRO Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:04

#516

Author: CASTRO
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:04

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Hi

I am looking for a public freeware unix system (I can't afford buying it)
which could support X-window using application.
my configuration is:
i486DX 50
4mb RAM
100 Mb Hard disk available for unix partition
Tseng Lab ET4000, VESA compatible video card
800x600 SVGA Screen. (1024x780 is also available but not the most comfortable)

If you know a server where I could find this (I have ftp facilities)
please tell me

Thank You

Bye

Re: Seeking X-Windows Unix for i486dx50

#517

Author: Alex Stivala
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 06:59

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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.
>my configuration is:
>i486DX 50
>4mb RAM
>100 Mb Hard disk available for unix partition
>Tseng Lab ET4000, VESA compatible video card
>800x600 SVGA Screen. (1024x780 is also available but not the most comfortable)

>If you know a server where I could find this (I have ftp facilities)
>please tell me

>Thank You

>Bye

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.

Alex.
--
Alex Stivala, B.Inf.Tech.(Eng.) student, Australian National University
Internet:   alex@coombs.anu.edu.au
Fidonet:    Alex Stivala 3:620/243

Re: Seeking X-Windows Unix for i486dx50

#518

Author: Stephen Tweedie
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:15

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In article <alex.722415578@coombs>, alex@coombs.anu.edu.au (Alex Stivala) writes:
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2
> <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.
---
Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs>   (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>)
Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.

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