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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joseph S. Lione who wrote (772)	12/20/1998 3:17:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2617

486 is plenty fast. I'd be more concerned about the amount of RAM. 8Mb is enough for most things, but you might want 16Mb if you plan on running X-windows. A 386 is the minimum (for Intel architecture) that Linux will run on. 340Mb hard drive shouldn't be a problem. Just don't pick the install everything button during installation. Just get the packages you need. -Mitch

To: Joseph S. Lione who wrote (772)	12/20/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 2617

X and Linux will run fine on an 8 meg ram, 340 meg system. It has to be bare bones. 500 megs is much better and a used drive could be got. Netscape will be some slow. It may not like 8 megs at all. Better buy memory while it is still around. I have heard X can be run in as little as 20 negs of storage, not ram and a skimpy set up! GL. EC<:-}