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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: X11 w/ 2Mb --> Don't bother...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.035819.7571@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 03:58:19 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sol.1992Nov7.035819.7571
- References: <1992Nov6.072532.13203@cs.umb.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov6.072532.13203@cs.umb.edu> cteague@ra.cs.umb.edu (Charles F. Teague II) writes:
- >
- > This is a quick note to anyone who is interested enough at the idea
- >of being able to run Xwindows on their PC, but who only has 2Mb of RAM:
- >
- > "Don't Bother."
- >
-
- Let me add to that. Using SLS with <= 2Meg is probably not great.
- SLS is designed to assemble a reasonably complete Unix system.
- GCC, X11, TeX, and few other things are not really practical
- in under 4Meg. If you have a low memory system you are better off
- using one of the other packages out there. They are smaller and
- more appropriate for those systems.
-
- Nevertheless, some day I will look at using a bootable root disk
- with lilo to optionally do the install.
-
- Peter
- pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca
-
- PS: Ted, please remove all traces of shoelace from tsx-11. It's day is done.
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