Resurrecting a box for Linux

[Net Llama!]

Bob Raymond wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 15:40, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>Bob Raymond wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 08:25, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
>>
> 
>>Generic memory is a bad thing.  It will generate alot more errors over 
>>time, and will fail sooner.  Memory is so cheap these days that any 
>>manufacturer who cuts prices more than the others is also cutting quality.
> 
> 
> But I also feel like 35 bucks for a stick of 32mb of RAM is a little
> much, and that's what a decent manufacturer such as Crucial is
> charging.  Micron's a bit better, at 12 bucks a stick.  Would that be
> cutting quality, considering Micron and Crucial are pretty much the same
> company?

Where are you seeing $35 for 32MB?  This is PC100??

>>>>I agree with Lonni about TWM, but FVWM (and FVWM2 and FVWM95)
>>>>is small and fast, and provides something of the look and feel we
>>>>get used to with XFCE, Gnome, KDE, or Windows.  Just have to configure
>>>>it by editing a text file instead of graphical utilities.  Add TKDesk
>>>>(which gives a useful panel for launching applications, and a file
>>>>manager), and it is a nice GUI that works well on even a 486 with
>>>>32 MB.
>>>
>>>
>>>I've used FVWM2 before, but I'm not sure- XFCE just seems a bit nicer. 
>>>Maybe with TKDesk I'd like it.
>>
>>FVWM2 definitely uses less resources than XFCE.
> 
> 
> If I were to upgrade to the 128 mb (or at least 96mb) of RAM, I would be
> able to use XFCE all right, wouldn't I?  Windows 98 actually ran on this
> machine with only 16 mb of RAM, and it ran pretty much as well as
> Windows 98 is capable of running.

I think the CPU is more of a limiting factor than the lack of memory.

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