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s913631@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Darren James Reed) writes:
>s931537@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (BIGGLES _pilot_) writes:
>>I'm planning to buy a Pentinum System with 16M ram, 540 plus HD, Tseng
>>lab W32P 2M PCI video board, 15' XGA monitor, CD-ROM drive ... 
>>I was once told that I should partition my hard drive to have Linux &
>>What if I wanna install the whole Linux onto HD, what's the size of
>>Any suggestion on which Linux I should buy ? I'd prefer those with good
>>documentation & lots of Xwindows programs.
>The quick answer: 0MB for Linux and use the entire HD for NetBSD.
>You can use X11R6 with NetBSD, and now that NetBSD is using shared libs,
>you can fit it in around 200MB with room to move (NetBSD is a much more
>complete distribution than Linux and actually works, besides being far
>superior in many aspects).

Actually what you're saying about Linux is incorrect; really
it depends on which distribution of Linux you get. The two
major distributions of Linux (Slackware & SLS - available
via anon ftp on monu1.cc.monash.edu.au - these are mirrors) work 
fine (and the Slackware is nicely arranged for floppies too and has
nice installation/deinstalltion software).
Also Linux isn't subject to the legal restrictions that NetBSD is
(and it has had shared libraries for quite some time), you could
also consider FreeBSD.
I'm running Linux with X in about 100 Megs (with some megs to spare)
no problems. It is doubtful you'd be able to do this with NetBSD.
Of course if you want to do some serious networking then NetBSD
if probably the choice for you; but Linux has good cacheing
for a single user box sitting on your desk at home (with only
a loopback for networking).

Linux also has more support and help for less "expert" users.
While NetBSD may be more of a "true" Unix (especially BSD Unix);
Linux is aiming to be Posix complaint and I've had no problem
compiling and running both BSD and Sys V software.

I suggest with your system a good 180 Meg partition will give you room
to move (ie. download lots of junk) and a 20 Megs swap partition with
your 16 Megs of memory would be very nice. With Linux you can
also run DOSEmu	(dos emulator) and Wine (Window's emulator).
Depends on how much you want to use DOS really; after installing a
pre-emptive multi-tasking system with a decent compiler etc
you find you only use DOS to play games anyway.

Geoff


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