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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!ichaos!jlaiho
- From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
- Subject: Re: Will LINUX work with mine?
- Organization: NullNet r.y.
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 17:22:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzvMx4.9qp@ichaos.nullnet.fi>
- References: <1588@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>
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- In article <1588@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk> cwa@oasis.icl.co.uk (Chris Adams) writes:
- >I have a reasonable PC:
- >
- >20MHz 386sx
- >4Mb RAM
- >200Mb HD
- >VGA
- >
- >Is this good enough for LINUX, or do I need more RAM/disk space/power?
- This is pretty nice for text-mode Linux, the disk is far more than adequate;
- I think somewhere around 40-60M is the minimum HD space in which the Linux
- is still usable.
-
- >I would be looking at getting Xwindows going on it, and I dread to think how
- >much resource that would take.
- I'd suggest you to get at least 2M more memory to run X. (Ok, X _will_ run
- with 4M and some swap, but 6M makes difference.)
- And that "VGA" statement is somewhat vague.. for monochrome X any basic VGA
- card should be enough, but I'd suppose you should have a supported SVGA card
- with at least 512k video memory to run X in colour. (supported cards include
- at least tseng ET3000, ET4000, Trident TVGA8900C, Paradise PVGA1A).
-
- ..Wolf
-