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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!main.put.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: minimum system config? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 22 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <Dzv2tu.DIr@news2.new-york.net> References: <3270F930.7D55@eccosys.com> <327129B8.2699@armintl.com> X-Trace: 846296849/11039 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 02:27:30 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.hardware:54504 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29979 Bruce Smith (bruce@armintl.com) wrote: : David Moles wrote: : > : > Okay. I'm thinking of building an x86 'NIX box to act as an : > apartment mail server and not much else. What's the cheapest : > thing I can get away with? Assume that I can borrow a monitor : > and keyboard from another box when necessary. What are the : > absolute minumum hardware requirements? : : Assuming you are NOT going to run X Windows, : Linux requires a 386 and 4MB of memory (8MB is much better). : : I have almost all of the Slackware 3.0 loaded and am using : 250MB disk space. You can go considerably smaller. : You can probably make it run in about 20 MB + some swap space. I note that this is posted to both the Linux and FreeBSD newsgroups, so apparently the poster is OS-shopping as well.I don't think the minimum system is much different between the two...386/4MB is pretty much rock bottom,486/8MB a better idea. The cheapest new x86 system you can buy can probably run it fine...