12 Dec
2001
12 Dec
'01
2:46 p.m.
Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
I have Linux 2.0 running a laptop with 4M RAM and
120M harddrive
(patitioned into 112M for filesystem, and 8M for swap). The installation is
based off RedHat 5.2 and it wasn't easy to actually get installed (RedHat
wanted 16M of RAM for installation, Slackware wanted 8M of RAM, and Tom's
RootBoot Disk barely functions in 4M of RAM) but I was able to get it going.
My main system is Linux 2.0 on a 120MHz AMD 586 (a glorified 486 really)
with 32M RAM with 3G of drive space and it's more than enough for what I do
(I run X, which allows me to run Mozilla off my roommate's box 8-)
-spc (My colocated box is a 33Mhz 486 ... )
I like debian linux for the simple reason you can upgrade over a modem
internet connection. Red Hat wants a $#%! network card! I downgraded to
windows
since I am using FPGA software and a game or two and needed my other 720
meg HD.
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