Re: Linux

by Bill Rhodes <wrhodes(at)qualcomm.com>

Date:	Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:39:31 -0700
To:	"Kae Verens" <kverens(at)orbism.com>, <Reywob(at)aol.com>, <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
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At 06:55 PM 9/19/00 +0100, Kae Verens wrote:
> > Which would you recommend?  It needs to be capable of running on a 486
>with
> > 16Mb RAM
>
>Of those two, I'd recommend Mandrake 7.1 for a beginner, but your system is
>a bit low spec for the default windows managers. Maybe with BlackBox (one of
>the managers you get with it), it might run at a respectable speed.

That sounds really, really painful.  Blackbox will run like a wounded prawn 
on that configuration.  I don't think X is a possibility.  I've run Red Hat 
and Blackbox on a pentium 60 w/ 16MB and it was nearly unusable.  I 
couldn't get much done except from the shell.  Unless you're planning on 
building a router or becoming a serious command line guru, a 486 isn't much 
good.

I just saw refurbished IBM PS/2s in my local computer weekly magazine for 
$200.  P200, 2GB HDD, 32MB RAM, 1MB video.  They'd run Mandrake w/ a WM 
just fine.  And with the hours you'd save over waiting for a 486 to stop 
swapping, the machine's cost might pay for itself in a couple months...  :-)

-B

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