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Article #93Re: A 486 w/ Linux
From: andy thomas
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 00:00
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On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Frettled Gruntbuggly wrote: > > 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. I'll second that - for a long time I ran a 386DX40 with 8M RAM and the same software as above with no problems at all and it ran a lot faster than it ever did running WfWG 3.11. That machine's still in use - as a popular FTP server. Andy
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