On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
