From: hargrove@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Paul H. Hargrove) Subject: Re: NEED HELP in figuring what's needed for LINUX. Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1992 01:13:22 GMT
In article <1992May31.220124.15774@wimsey.bc.ca> bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning) writes:
>By all means get the other 4Mb of RAM. 8Mb of ram is a reasonably good setup
>for Linux (that's how much I use). 40Mb of disk will not be enough, 60Mb would
>be usable for what you want. Note that if you did not install X, groff, gemacs
>40Mb would be *lots*. Plan on having an 8Mb or so swap partition, as X chews
>up a fair ammount of memory. Why only get a 20 or 25Mhz 387? I'd get a 40Mhz
>Cyrix copro... also, make sure you have a TSENG ET4000 based SVGA card.
>
I have no problem w/ 2Mb RAM + 4Mb swap, 26Mb hard disk, and a 12Mhz processor.
On top of that I'm running w/ a liquid crystal display (CGA, of course).
I, obviously, don't run X, but find linux still a very usefull system for my
work. (no emacs, groff, or gnuplot to fill up the disk.)
-- Paul H. Hargrove hargrove@theory.tc.cornell.edu "A witty saying proves nothing." --Voltaire