Re: compact distributions for old equipment

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

I would sugest trying to get netscape 3.x navigator installed.  Maybe
even 4.0 navigator.  A great use of small linux boxes would be "web
terminals"

BTW Slackware is great.  I am using 4.0 for most of my stuff, including
routers/firewalls/ipmasq boxes, Ethernet switches, print servers, servers,
and student workstations.

			Harry

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:

> I did a quick test, using Slackware 3.9 on a 200 meg hard disk. A quick,
> lean install took up about 70 megs, and it included a lot of stuff I could
> clean out for a system that was intended to serve the limited purposes that
> Rob described. I ran no networking on the system, and I tried both the VGA16
> and the SVGA X servers.
> 
> On a 32 meg system, running VGA16 X and fvwm2, with only one xterm open,
> free reports 25 megs free. I could increase this, but only by a little bit,
> by compiling a custom kernel and not running the standard set of virtual
> terminals. Moving to SVGA costs only about another 100K of RAM.
> 
> Based on this quick test, a good estimate for available RAM on a 16 meg
> system is between 9 and 10 megs. With 150 megs of hard disk, 32 megs of it
> used as swap, I figure the system files would take up around 40 megs (that's
> not cutting them too lean, since I want to be sure to provide the libraries
> the actual apps might need).
> 
> With this information as a guide, what can someone suggest in the way of a
> sample set of apps to try to include in the sort of dedicated grade-level
> setup that Rob was originally asking about? I'll be happy to pursue this
> further, but additional tests, to be realistic, require some input as to
> desired apps.
> 
> >At 01:52 AM 7/6/99 +0200, Malonowa wrote [in part]:
> >
> >>Maybe one way forward is to setup possible configurations for these
> machines and
> >>see how much spare ram is left. That'd give us programmers something to work
> >>from/bear in mind when developing.
> 
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA  94303-3603    	 	        ray@comarre.com        
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