Re: x windows
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 1997 butch@maestro.com wrote:
>
> > well i got 1.2.2 installed and i was wondering about x
> > windows, could anyone tell me how much disk space i will
> > need to run this. i have an old 386 with 4m ran and 20mb
> > of swap space.
>
> less than say 300, 400 is better and of course, (if your budget
> allows)700 or more would probably do a single user machine for some time.
>
I have a 386 too, running with about 250 MB of hard disk. I think 250 is
fine, if you don't want to use every single program. I have netscape, all
the common stuff you might want for internet, gcc, the basics, but nothing
flashy like wine. And I have about 50 megs free. So it depends on what
you want to do. Avoid big stuff like emacs when possible.
I think the memory is more important. 4MB runs fvwm and rxvt fine, but
don't even think about running netscape. The extra 4MB will only cost you
about $30 probably and will make a huge difference. Of course, I only run
a mono server - even the vga16 server is extremely slow on my machine (you
can see it redraw). I think that might depend more on your video card
than anything else though.
Havoc Pennington
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