I ran slackware on a P60 with 8MB RAM and a 420MB HD. It ran fine as long as I didn't run X. With X it swapped like crazy when switching between apps. I upgraded to 24MB RAM it and ran X great - including Emacs, as any decent box should. I was running fvwm for a window manager - no gnome of kde in those days. It was also a 1.X kernel. Mike Bresnahan happy as noodlebutter to have a nibblet to add to the list ----- Original Message ----- From: <joel at luths.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] FTP install of Slackware? > Quoting Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com>: > > > I've decided to finally give Slackware a try (about 5 years after > > hearing > > about it...). > > I have a 486 w/12MB of RAM and will probably end up with a 340MB HDD. I > > want > > to set it up as a web server. (before you all shout out that 'you need > > more > > memory than that!'; remember what it used to be like, before memory was > > cheap.. it's not going to be a high-performance box, and I don't care.) > > > > Seems to me I used to run RH5.something on a 386, 8-16MB RAM (don't recall), > 500 MB HD. Was running all sorts of stuff, Apache, NFS, Samba, etc and as a > firewall. Tried 4 MB RAM but no-go. Probably could have made it work at 4MB but > back then I didn't know about turning down the minimum # servers for Apache (I > think httpd's were chewing up all the mem so swap was thrashing). It's amazing > what you can do if you forego a GUI. A 12MB 486 should be fine for > experimentation. > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list