Subj : multitask or die!
To   : Florian Diesch
From : Charles Angelich
Date : Tue Nov 27 2001 05:22 am

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Hello Florian - 

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CA>> Originally I read many comments about putting LINUX on an
CA>> 80386. I had two of them and thought it sounded like it
CA>> might be interesting. It never happened and the machines
CA>> died while I looked for a way to install LINUX on one of
CA>> them. 

FD> I never tried it and I think it could be difficult with
FD> today's distributions since many of them are optimized at
FD> least for a 486. But I don't think it's impossible. You
FD> probably have to recompile some software for i386 

I read this and was looking for someone who had already done
this Since many said they had installed onto a 386 I had
thought it would be easy to find. It wasn't found. 

FD>>> If you want to use Gnome or KDE you need a better
FD>>> computer and at least 64MB RAM just for the Desktop. 

I've read this also but many would argue if _I_ posted that
statement. 

CA>> "Better computer" and 64 meg of memory would more-or-less
CA>> match what I have said. 

FD> It just depends on what you want. There are lots of modern
FD> window managers that need much less ressources than KDE or
FD> Gnome. So if you just want a nice GUI try fvwm2, Afterstep,
FD> WindowMaker etc. 

Not a matter of having graphics onscreen. I would like to have
access to GIMP and a few other graphics apps. I don't know that
they would all work with a `lesser' GUI on top of LINUX. 

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