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- From: stephan@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Stephan Biesbroeck)
- Subject: Re: 486 notebook+Linux etc. = SPARCbook?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.105659.27009@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:56:59 GMT
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- In article <BxoAJ8.Ior@cs.psu.edu>, corbet@sargon.astro.psu.edu (Robin Corbet) writes:
- |> I'm thinking of getting some type of notebook computer.
- |> Ideally I'd like a SPARCbook but that's too expensive.
- |> Does anyone have any experience of using Linux/X11/XView
- |> on a 486 based notebook in running Sun applications?
- |> If so what would be a reasonable type of minimum configuration
- |> to run a few XView based tasks (e.g. textedit, olwm, a few cmdtool's)?
- |> Would a Gateway 2000 Nomad 425DXL be a good machine for this
- |> type of use?
- |> Any other words of advice?
- I have a notebook 486DX/33 Highscreen notebook with 120 Mb disk and 4 M RAM
- I have taken a 40M partition for dos and 80 M for linux.
- Linux is running really fine, but I haven't installed X yet. I will
- do this during this week.
- |>
- |> Thanks in advance.
- |>
- |> Robin
- |> corbet@astro.psu.edu
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