From: jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 16:37:55 GMT
David Willmore (willmore@iastate.edu) wrote:
:
: The comparison was for systems, not whatever the architecture can
: support. Can you go get a machine with 1GB of memory? You can for an
: Alpha or an HP 705.
:
Heck, you need it. The OSF/1 kernel, for example, is almost 6MB. Compare
that to 270KB for my Linux kernel. If there were a version of Linux for
the Alpha, it would blow the doors of OSF/1 in terms of efficiency.
:
: You're not likely to see more than a few Linux systems with more than 32
: Meg. There just aren't that many motherboards that will hold much more.
:
Many of the new ones support 128MB.
:
: [swap space]
: Last time I checked, I was told 16Meg. Who's right?
:
Nope. You can have multiple 16MB swap areas.
:
: >> How stable is the X server?
: >Enough that I haven't had problems. :-)
:
: Congratulations. There are more than a few people who haven't shared
: your experience.
:
I believe the problem is getting XFree86 to run on your machine's particular
hardware combination. Once it does, it is the most stable, compatible, and
robust X server there is. Trust me on this one. Fighting with the X servers
on different Unix systems is (unfortunately) a big part of my job.
: David