[ale] desktops for older machines

[Thompson Freeman]

OK, memory only here, and based upon machines which died two/three years
ago. 8 MB ram is likely to be far too painful to be useable under X. 16 MB
ram will be approaching useable under the lightest of use (ie. I suspect
you would need to try and see if you can run light enough to make it
useable). 24MB ram and you are likely ready to go for light word
processing and such, but still close to borderline usable. 32MB ram I
would expect to be useable but limited. ie. don't run lots of colors in X,
skip themeablility, use a server to handle the print jobs, and so forth.

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Rod Young wrote:

> My question is on 16 & 32 meg ram class machines. Maybe 8 on some of the 
> 486 machines. But most of the machines are p1 or P2 but we only have one 
> machine 64 megs or above.
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> On 05/10/2001, 12:50:13 PM, Fulton Green <ale at FultonGreen.com> wrote 
> regarding Re: [ale] desktops for older machines:
> 
> 
> > At home, I use a 233 MHz Pentium MMX-based notebook. It originally had 32 
> MB
> > in it. Did great until I started using Mozilla under Red Hat 6.2. So I
> > upgraded to 64 MB. Did fine until RH 7.0 (2.4 kernel and XFree86 4.0). So
> > now I'm at 128 MB RAM and doing OK, for now. Coincidentally, Microsoft is
> > now defining "Windows XP-ready" machines as those that can currently run
> > WinMe or Win2K ... and have 128 MB.
> 
> > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:10:19AM -0400, Dan Newcombe wrote:
> > > On Thu, 10 May 2001, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> > > > Several years ago, I ran a 486/33Mhz machine under X with (?? fvwm ??) as
> > > > the window manager. Once I had enough memory in it, it ran fine. My 
> 386/16
> > > > Mhz machine was another situation 8-).
> > >
> > > Many moons ago, it was X on my 386/33 with 4M ram.  I remember going to a
> > > computer show in Albany, NY and buying 4 more megs (for $120) and the
> > > performance was through the roof after that.
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