Linux on 486 boxen (RAM and HD limitations)

[oommen at imaginetechnologies.com (Oommen Thomas)]

We used to have RHL 5.X on a 386/20MHz with 8MB RAM and 240MB HDD.
Although a bit slow as per current standards, I used to have this
as a nameserver. Unless there was a power outage, the machine never gave
any problems. And the speed was never a problem if it was remotely
accessed using telnet.

So, I think the config u say will work, if u go for the mimimum stuff
only.

To take it in a different angle, this will be a good opportunity to
demonstrate that Linux is NOT resource-hungry unlike ....

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Oommen

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:

<gaf>One of our installfest potential attendees has a 486 with 16MB RAM and 
<gaf>500MB HD. I'm comfortable with the 500MB as long as we don't install 
<gaf>Gnome or KDE. I have not checked the Red HAT docs, but is 16MB 
<gaf>feasible with the Red Hat installer, using the mem= parameter. I would 
<gaf>still advise her to have 32MB or more 
<gaf>Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
<gaf>Associate Director
<gaf>Boston Linux and Unix user group
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