Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:30:54 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: "Dutch Collins" <dutch@charm.net>, "Yevhen Miroshnychenko" <miroshny@cip.physik.uni-bonn.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-Window on computer with 170MB HDD Message-ID: <200007101430.KAA10360@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jan 1990 21:53:42 CST." <005401b42881$e9d21ec0$33cefea9@josh>
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> I definitely agree about the performance issue. A 486sx with 18 megs of ram > is going to be painful with X....I installed X with KDE on a Pentium 75 with > 40 megs of ram just to see what it would be like and it is not pretty. Just > running X and no other applications digs the machine into 10-15 megs of > swap. That's not X biting you, it's KDE . . . eliminate that, and you should be able to run just about anything but emacs [ob. troll: anyone who has *ever* found a system with enough memory to keep emacs happy, raise your hand . . . :) ] hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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