[lug] 32meg linux running X?
Michael J. Hammel
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org
Wed Feb 23 11:43:05 MST 2000
Thus spoke Rob Mohr
> The news copy stated that all of these 'net "appliances" worked with only
> 32 meg of ram. Is this a trick?
>
> I don't remember any of my minimal linux installs being below 100 meg. Do
They're running in 32MB RAM. The installs take >100MB of disk space, but
they run in very small memory footprints. I know you can run text based in
8MB. X will run fairly well in 16MB if you configure things properly (like
using a very low memory window manager).
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Michael J. Hammel The Graphics Muse
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org http://www.graphics-muse.com
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