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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system
Date: 17 Sep 1995 08:43:26 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: rhawkins@iastate.edu's message of 17 Sep 1995 01:22:55 GMT
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In article <43ft9f$50t@news.iastate.edu> rhawkins@iastate.edu (Rick Hawkins) writes:
We're about to experiment with turning old machines that are replaced
into xterminals. The current guess is to install linux & xfree86 o
them; i don't think we have anything short of 4M386's (acutally, 486's
may fall out for this use).
The only duty of such a thing would be to serve as an xhost over telnet
through the univeristy network (which isn't overloaded).
Are we doomed? is this enough? Will paginging do us in?
In a word: miserable. As in, I believe the performance would be
miserable and nobody would have any desire to do real work on them.
I wouldn't recommend anything less than 8MB for X. And, 16MB is
really where it starts getting "nice".
Heck, even Windows 95 doesn't run well in 4MB, and it has much smaller
aspirations than an X-based unix host. :-)
In addition, don't mean to start a flame-war, but you might consider
FreeBSD or NetBSD instead of Linux for those things. It would feel
much more familiar to all those people would would be used to using
all those Ultrix (a BSD derivative) DECstations you guys have all over
the place.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
--< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >--
NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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