10 Jun
2013
10 Jun
'13
7:57 a.m.
On 06/10/2013 10:35 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Ian King <IanK at
vulcan.com> wrote:
Same her on Slackware, it was the common distro then. My first linux PC was
a 486sx/33 with 8mb. Never got Xwindows working usefully due to oddball
video.
Next try was a P133 and that ran it fairly well with 16M.
Allsion
On 6/8/13 7:23 AM, "Mr Ian Primus"
<ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
My first Linux machine was a 386SX, and I ran X on it... FVWM...
... two or three terminal windows, a clock and xeyes running...
I think that 386SX may have been a 4MB machine. Slow, but it got there.
Similar
to my early Linux experience, but I had a 386DX/40 w/4MB, so
not as slow, but kernel builds still took a while (and I had an AHA1540,
so unless i wanted the largest pre-built kernel, I had to make my own
to trim out all the stuff I _didn't_ need). Back those days, I ran
Slackware, but I couldn't tell you what distro versions (but I remember
the kernel versions - 0.40 was the first I remember trying, then because of
the SCSI issue, I stepped back for a bit and really dove in around 0.95).
-ethan