7 Nov
2007
7 Nov
'07
4:22 p.m.
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 20:43 +0000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
too. I also have a 486 laptop running slackware with
a 2.4 kernel in
8M. It can run X, but I tend not to, as the display resolution is "not
high" and anyway I prefer text mode for the things I use it for (switch
setup, SNMP, tcpdump and wireless monitoring, mostly). It works well,
and certainly doesn't exhibit "a carnival of swapping".
I have a Toshiba Libretto 70CT (which probably is marginally on-topic -
it's got to be close to 10 years old, and even if it is a PC it's an
interesting one). I run NetBSD on it, and it deals with X quite happily
in a whole whopping 32M of RAM.
Gordon