27 Aug
2006
27 Aug
'06
7:23 p.m.
I am looking for suggestions for an operating system
for a PC, specs
75 MHZ Pentium, 16 MB Ram, 4 GB HD, currently running PC-DOS Ver 7.
Specs seem too tight for Linux or BSD, or at least
little advantage
over DOS or CP/M.
Well, I don't consider things like real protected-mode multitasking and
a modern networking stack to be "little advantage", but that may just
reflect the sorts of things I tend to do.
Anyone have experience with an operating system that
might work, and
be capable of useful work?
Depends on your idea of "useful work". Until recently my laptop was
almost exactly that sort of machine (first-gen Pentium, 16M, a few gig
disk), and I did plenty of stuff I considered useful on it. (I've
since got a 32M memory card to replace the 8M that was in there, so
it's now at 40M - at 16M I couldn't turn on the live backup stuff or it
would start to page if I so much as typed return to the shell.)
Of course, I also wasn't using Gnome and Netscane and suchlike. (My OS
was (is) a relatively old rev of NetBSD.)
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