From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQkrG-0006nD-MY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:55:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A1E7E02F2; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:55:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f20.google.com (mail-qy0-f20.google.com [209.85.221.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC52E02F2 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:55:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so8215009qyk.10 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:55:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JvVxqyv+qe+Qi+X8xE3D2DBW1uzte7fir88tyr1RzZY=; b=MWlO6Ot50NcpM6Wp1jaR+m38d2PS8uKftpxxhnVtIJKDVt7PtBbDvVg/Y3lbvFyeqx v1sN3Y6gtO/K5aNbjQs9q7BPNlvWQ16Ufc6uYtyAj3+Xtqo0wmr08Z3U/Rl1Bqx7qKpz HaymtFsc7OWoqcRACLPTlE+ZDX/zWcd7Go5eY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=YPIAE6hYU8ooxO/Agy/qK2Et71DzkWIeHLZzVWPZ+YbggnfVW4em0mG81ANJoCxP8H ALvZfW2/VEj5f8uaYf7B/H/pbNVlPIQd8ihhnkso7PuMuXEhA9fu/kgm+IhlP6W/Cwir HPaPjLfRGLCJYg2na01WK6f7cQHS5vAzmWlJk= Received: by 10.214.79.10 with SMTP id c10mr2265727qab.73.1232812541186; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:55:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.230.105.38? (dialup-4.230.105.38.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.105.38]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 9sm2818973yws.54.2009.01.24.07.55.38 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:55:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <497B39F8.8040501@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:55:36 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? References: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <200901201827.59144.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <58965d8a0901200937w79cd1f82m510024b89762fe47@mail.gmail.com> <200901201856.25208.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <5cf51b790901201000p680774fem7549bc9c493940c0@mail.gmail.com> <49767398.4090005@gmail.com> <497B2B83.9040202@wrkhors.com> In-Reply-To: <497B2B83.9040202@wrkhors.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ce69c47d-f280-49b2-bb54-a424a8dbbc38 X-Archives-Hash: cb628c90e22519d0eb10e4e996010730 Steven Lembark wrote: >> OK folks, all have a seat please. I ran a full blown KDE on a 133Mhz >> machine with 256Mbs of ram. A friend if mine played Solitaire on it and >> it worked well. It even had sound on it. >> > > I started running fvwm on a 486 w/ 16MB of core and > a pair of 20MB disk drives (one RLL one MFM). Face > it: we've all become addicted to amounts of RAM that > didn't even exist on the planet 25 years ago, let > alone disk :-) > > But when was this? Mine was about a year ago or so. Dale :-) :-)