Subj : Re: compaq 2200/180 MHz (Cyrix )
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Steve Ackman
Date : Thu Sep 02 2004 05:49 pm

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:59:01 GMT, Shawn Modersohn wrote:
> 
> 
> This thing has 16mb of ram and a 180 mhz processor.  I am fixing it up for a
> friend.  All they want to do is get on the internet.  I would like to hook
> it up with an older version of Linux that is lean and mean.  Also, an older
> version of Netscape that won't bog down the limited computer resources yet
> still is rather fresh with css and javascript support.  

  If you can increase your RAM to 24MB, you can run 
pretty much any browser out there, given no DE or WM.
If it's just an internet access machine, you don't 
really need DE or WM anyway.
  At 16 MB, about the only thing you can run without 
hitting swap awfully heavy is an old NS 3.x (no css,
but a barely useful js) or, as mjt mentioned, dillo... 
which has css support, but no js as of the last version 
I have (0.8.0).

  As I mentioned in another thread, I used to run 
NS 3.01 on a K-75 with 8MB RAM.  It was slow, and hit
swap a lot.  Once I upgraded to 12MB, it was like
lightning (relatively speaking ;-)

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Steve Ackman
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