On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:52:27AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Aug 12 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I rolled out my first Debian installation on a similar > > configuration, though I had about half the disk. What are you > > planning on *doing* with the box -- it's pretty anaemic buy current > > standards. > > Wow, I use a computer not much better than that one. :-) > > And I've been installing Linux for customers in machines with > worse conditions than that one: I've been installing a minimal > install of slink (just the base system) and then upgrading and > installing the necessary packages (apt is great). :-) The > systems usually are 486s with 8MB of RAM and about 200MB of > disk. :-)
Servers, workstations, or what? While I could see a departmental file/print/mail server, or a firewall system with reasonable traffic, and possible a limited task workstation or X terminal, based off of a 486, I'd have a really hard time seeing someone using this as a full locally-homed GUI workstation. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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