According to Doin' the bull dance, feelin' the flow...: While burning my CPU.
>
> Well, that does kinda suck, doesn't it?
>
> But, on the bright side of things, my Slackware 3.4 runs like a dream on
> my 486DX/33 with 8megs, so maybe its just Slackware trying to be big and
> bad... And of course, at least Linux doesn't require a 12 million dollar
> super computer to load up and just crash your system anyhow (ahem,
> Windows, ahem). :-)
At our local hobby club i made up a 386/25 Mhz 4Mb 40Mb H/d, my old linux
tutor installed slackware on it with kernel 2.0.12 (somewhere in that
region) we had a World wide convers server with 4 radio ports via an scc
card, one ethernet connected to 4 local machines, sendmail, pop, and a few
ham protocols as they were in those days, now that machine took 10 minutes
to boot, but when it was up, it was UP, and no one could bring it to its
knees, (execpt me) try that with Widows.
>
> -Evan-
>
> On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, 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???
> >
> > Have fun,
> > bogdan
> >
> >
> >
>
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Regards Richard.
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