Re: Distro advise

Douglas Mayne <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

96MB is enough for Slackware. I don't know about X with the horsepower on
that CPU, though. XFCE is a minimalist window manager which might work.
This computer could function best as an "appliance" (fax machine, router,
dialin gateway, etc) or a file server like a file server where X is not
required.

I realise things have changed but, through around 1997, my main X11
workstation console + shared ssh server + Web/ftp server was a 486DX2/66
EISA/VLB box with 64MB total RAM. It lived on my building's T-1 line in
San Francisco, and survived a couple of Slashdottings without a lot of
strain. (E.g., it served up image files from a couple of early SVLUG
publicity events.)

It ran fvwm2, in can you're curious. ;-> And yes, I think Slackware, back
then.

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rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx --Paul Benoit
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