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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Minimal X-windows system
Date: 12 Jan 1994 01:00:20 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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In article <CJHpHs.173@uai.com>, Ken Burrell <ktb@uai.com> wrote:
>Would someone please tell me what the minimum amount of memory is
>required to run X-windows (SVGA mode, 256 colors) on a 486 with
>the appropriate video card and monitor?  I know that you can run
>X-windows in the above mode with 4Mb of memory and a swap file under
>Linux; but, what do you need with 386BSD ?  Please help, as I have
>been unable to find anything on this in the latest FAQ.

From seeing posts and people's comments on those setups, I wouldn't
actually call it 'run X-windows' under Linux.  More like 'crawl X-windows'.

You really want 8MB of memory to run X, and more if you plan on developing
X applications with either Linux of *BSD.


Nate

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