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 1LQkjT-0005rh-GU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:47:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D82EE0485; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:47:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192C2E0485 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:47:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F5064244 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:47:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.899 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.899 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.300, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id F3RVdGrX4yfQ for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:47:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDAD7646C8 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:47:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LQkj9-0004dD-6H for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:47:19 +0000 Received: from 67-220-10-117.usiwireless.com ([67.220.10.117]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:47:19 +0000 Received: from grante by 67-220-10-117.usiwireless.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:47:19 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:47:07 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: 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> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-220-10-117.usiwireless.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) Sender: news 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 X-Archives-Salt: 820af9e4-0ac9-4260-8d68-1225141553e3 X-Archives-Hash: fc38dd941adefec0b2dd6b344c8b7234 On 2009-01-24, 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). :) That sounds like my first linux setup, except I started with 8MB of RAM and both of the 20MB drives were MFM ST506-style drives. RLL was leading edge back then. I remember running SunOS and X on 68000 machines with 4MB of RAM. > 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 Yup. When I first started running Linux The only people who talked about a gigbyte of RAM worked at places like DEC setting up large clusters of machines that had resources a mere mortal couldn't even dream of. -- Grant