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[ale] Re: Mem. reqs. for RH9 (and other distros)
- Subject: [ale] Re: Mem. reqs. for RH9 (and other distros)
- From: Newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu (Dan Newcombe)
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:41:08 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, John Trostel wrote:
> I remember my son and I installing an X windows based Linux onto a 386
> with 8 MB of RAM when he was 3 or 4 years old... that was painfully
> slow, but it worked. We eventually removed X windows and it worked just
> dandy.
Ah...the good ole days. Had X running on a 386 w/ 4MB of RAM. I actually
bought 4 more megs just to run X. Eventually, I had X running on the SVGA
card and the Hercules card. Amazing stuff in 94
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