On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 05:13:49PM +0300, Bogdan Taru wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I hope I'm not going to be very boring, but I really had a bad experience
> with Linux yesterday...
>
> I had a 486DX2 machine with 8MB of Ram and 200MB of HDD, and tryied to
> install Slackware 3.5 on it. Booted, rooted, and when I've runned 'Set
> swap partitions' or 'Set target partitions', I got 'SetSwap can't fork'
> and 'SetTarget can't fork'. After hours of struggling, I finally read the
> message welcoming you: Yes, I've got to activate the swap partitions
> before running 'setup' on a 8MB of Ram machine!
>
> I mean, Linux started as a 'small' operating system, with high
> performances and low requirements (2MB of Ram???). I remember installing
> Linux 1.2.13 on a 486SX, with 4MB of Ram, and compiling kernel, and all
> the other stuff without problems. And here I am, one year later, trying to
> install the latest Slack on a machine with double memory, processing speed
> and having problems from the very beginning... I know that a OS should
> develop, and that means growing, but is there anyone out there who's still
> interested in optimizing???
Everybody is. One should however also consider that Linux is one of
the very few OS'es that people expect to run perfectly in everything
from a 386/sx-25 with 8 meg of ram to a Sun Starfire or a SGI Orion
2000 with something like 64 processors and 64 gig of ram, which there
are actually projects to port linux to. Sometimes certain tradeoffs
are necessary.
--
Jakob Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Linux k2 2.0.32 i586]
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