[lug] 32meg linux running X?

[Wayde Allen]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Michael J. Hammel wrote:

> 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).

Actually I used to run X on an old 486 with 8MB of RAM.  Works fine as
long as you don't open very many windows.

- Wayde
  (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)