Hi > In this particular case, that doesn't really apply. An Acorn (note the > spelling) A5000 is a very specific machine which uses an ARM (Acorn RISC > Machine) CPU and comes with a slightly Mac-like GUI (KDE has a theme based on > its look & feel) and an operating system called RiscOS. It's no sort of > x86 clone. Generally, all A5000's are virtually identical, about the only > changes made to them may have been that the hard drives may have been > replaced by bigger ones. They're about the age of 386's but tend to be > even more rock-solid reliable than Linuxboxes. So if Debian has been ported > to run on one A5000 it will run on 'em all, hard drive space permitting, and > 'A5000' is an adequate description.
That's why I didn't give anymore detail. :-) I must apologies for the mis-typed subject. > > However, RiscOS code is extremely compact, and whether Linux can do anything > useful in 4MB of RAM I'm not sure. I only want to run apache and CVS. Regards Paul Paul Grenyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.paulgrenyer.co.uk "So long and thanks for all the fish." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
