[nmglug] Some GUI should run on 32 MB, shouldn't it?

[WA7BSZ]

> I think Mars is right. I dont know what you intend to do with 
> the old laptop. hope its not much .... apt-get install screen mutt
> lynx
> :)
> 
> Good Luck,
> -- 
> Jason Davis
>

Isn't there hope of some GUI operating with 32 MB?  I know RH 7.2
wouldn't even install on my old MMX 200 MHz with 32 MB, well, that is,
the GUI wouldn't install.  I could certainly have used it as a firewall
computer, my own large firewall router with NAT.  But I wanted to
actually use it.  Win2k wouldn't install on it either, just NT or 98. 
Same with my 150 MHz Compaq laptop which doesn't have a CD player in
it.  I haven't figured out how to install Linux on that.  I tried
acouple times and it crashed until I learned about nomce.  Then I got
further, but never to a real install.  Partly because it has a 2 GB
drive.  It was just quite user unfriendly and more interesting projects
came up and I have never gone back to it.  

A friend installed RH 6.2 on a computer with a small amount of RAM,
perhaps 32 MB or 64 MB, I don't know which, and that ran pretty well on
an old 200 MHz pentium.  I have the RH6.2 CDs.  

Kim


		
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