On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 14:56:08 -0700
"Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Collins wrote:
> > Sorry to hear about that!  I don't think gentoo or any of the
> > mega-distros is the answer.  64meg ram is pretty much the minimum for
> > anything with X.
> 
> That's hardly true.  What did everyone do before the days of 64MB being 
> common?  You can run X on 4MB of RAM with something like twm of fvvm.
> 
> > There's a really minimalist distro, but I can't remember the name. 
> > You might do some searches on google or on our archives (I tried it
> > out long ago).  xfce or blackbox are your best bets for a usable X
> > environment with low mem.
> 
> Exactly, the limitation is the window manager not X.
> 
> 
> -- 
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> L. Friedman                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo:              http://netllama.ipfox.com
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>    2:50pm  up 9 days, 21:45,  4 users,  load average: 0.15, 0.07, 0.09
Lonnie

   Words of hope from the darkness beckonong me into the light. Ahhhhhhhhhhh
Linux is good. Thanks Lonnie, I will first see if I can get a CL installed first then 
X & xfce.

cheers
-- 
Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas  75287
972 306-2296
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Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1
Registered Linux User

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