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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Up and Running linux
- Keywords: Up and Running linux info. needed
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.142001.9967@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 14:20:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.175330.17630@pool.info.sunyit.edu>, ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
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- | >> 4). What's the major fugures of Linux? Doesn't it support X on 386sx ?
- | >
- | > Sure does. It may be a bit sluggish on 4 M of ram, and you'll definitely
- | >want a swap partition, but it should work.
- |
- | How about those Linuxers with 16-32 MB of RAM? I haven't heard their
- | experiences. I wonder if they ever managed to run out of memory, except
- | when compiling something big like Interviews. :-)
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- I compiled the kernel while running X in 12MB. I know it didn't swap
- because I don't have swap enabled. Now I have 16MB and a faster CPU. The
- CPU really helps, and a 387 helps (don't run X without it) on a slow
- machine.
-
- I would like to add more memory, but I don't trust the disk code to
- handle memory it can't access off the AT bus. No problem if the CPU does
- the move, but if you use the bus mastering SCSI, or DMA on floppy you
- lose big time. Until I read the drivers myself I keep to 16MB.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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