Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 30 May 1996 23:49:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jacques Gelinas <> | Subject | Re: A 4meg linux box ... |
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On Mon, 27 May 1996, Derrik Pates wrote:
> > > On Sat, 25 May 1996, Lauri Tischler wrote: > > > > A 4M linux box functions very well as a small router or 4 port term server > > > or X terminal. I have a 2M compaq laptop which is a very useful tool for > > > all sorts of small tasks, ie traceroute,ping,ftp,telnet via ppp or ethernet. > > > Makes a cheap sniffer with tcpdump. > Yeah, a _very_ small router. And an X terminal? The XFree86 docs say that > X functions _very slowly_ under 4 meg. They recommend at least 8 meg to > do any real work.
I am running a 486 DX/33 with 4 megs as an X terminal. It has a cirrus logic 5429 Vesa. 4 megs is a little bit short, so I put an old drive on it only for swap (it boots using nfsroot). Swapping is barely noticeable generally when switching screens.
I have no problem running the following things on it
Netscape WordPerfect 6.0 Doom Abuse
These application are often loaded at the same time. The server is a 486 dx/2 with 16 megs of ram btw.
Scrolling and painting is quite fast. Scrolling through a netscape page full of icon is generally as fast as you can move the mouse. No wave, no glitch. It is certainly fast enough (perfect I feel) for office work.
Few days ago I have played DOOM on it with my son while the server was compiling a kernel (The server is also running X). DOOM was playable, no kidding.
-------------------------------------------------------- Jacques Gelinas (jacques@solucorp.qc.ca) Use Linux without reformating: Use UMSDOS.
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