Linux on a P166 with 64 MB RAM?

Jeff Barnette barnette@alamo.satlug.org
Thu Nov 15 23:51:01 2001


On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote:

> wondering if a P166 with a 2.1 GB HDD and 64 MB EDO RAM will do the
> trick? I get the impression that some of the GUI's available can be
> pretty demanding on video memory, and that computer only has a Matrox
> Millenium with 2 MB WRAM.

I run RedHat 6.2 on a P100 with a 4 GB HDD and 72 MB RAM.  Even using KDE
as the desktop (probably one of the more demanding GUI's) the machine is
_very_ usable.

Jeff