Re: A 486 w/ Linux

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From: Frettled Gruntbuggly
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 00:00

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Charlie Stross wrote in message ...
>It'll work fine. But forget X. You'll be better off running Lynx,
>NcFTP, mutt, and slrn from the console windows. If you run X on an 8
>meg system it will swap like crazy. As for Netscrape, version 3 slurps


Not *strictly* true - only by today's scary window manager standards. I ran
X/fvwm/netscape 3 on a 486 SX25 w 8 Mb RAM for about a year. It's perfectly
acceptable, as long as you're not doing too much else with it at the time.

A

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From: "Frettled Gruntbuggly" <jmd@arse.net>
Subject: Re: A 486 w/ Linux
Date: 1998/01/11
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