Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:19:44 +0100 | From | Lenart Gabor <> | Subject | Re: high-end vs. low end |
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On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:53:33AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Don't forget, the point is, that linux makes a perfect Xterminal of > > > > a 386 with 8M ram (and should further versions do so too). > > > > > > It probably will. It might even work better :) > > > > Don't think so. I tried to make X run on 386 with 8meg and hercules, > > and it is very slow. It is usable, but when X it start 2 minutes or > > so, it is not nice. So - 386 was never nice X terminal. > > I once booted Linux/m68k on my Amiga 4000/040, with an artificial memory limit > of 2 MB (of course I had swap :-). I started X (640x400 in 256 colors), twm and > one xterm. I do suggest at least 4 MB, though ;-)
Here, at our (poor) University we were using 486DX-40 machines with 4M of RAM running Linux. Using them as X terminal is not too bad. OK, starting the X server tooks some time, but it works well for me ... (and running netscape 3 on another 4Mb-machine worked as well ;-) In the student-hostel a 386 machine with 4Mb RAM is used as router (kernel 1.2.x, I can't remember exactly).
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