25 Dec
2001
25 Dec
'01
9:58 p.m.
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, ajp166 wrote:
From: Tothwolf <tothwolf(a)concentric.net>
X will run fine with 16mb, but it would be happier and more responsive
with 32mb or more. Provided you give the machine enough swap space, X can
run with a little as 4-8mb of ram. I use a 486DX2-66 with 32mb (could use
16mb, but wanted the extra memory for a ramdisk) as an internet gateway.
-Toth
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Ben Franchuk wrote:
I have a AMD5x86/133 that runs linux Xwin rather well in 16mb
ram. I've run it on 486dx66 with 20mb ram and it's decent. A 486 makes a nice Linux box providing you
don't run X-windows.
A 486 with 32-64mb of ram will run X fine, but it's still a little
slow for cpu intensive processes (netscape, mozilla, gimp...).