Resurrecting a box for Linux

[Bob Raymond]

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 19:21, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Also sprach Bob Raymond:

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> > 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?
> 
> I'd take Micron over Crucial any day.

In other words, Crucial's ripping me off by trying to sell the 32mb
modules for 35 bucks and I should just spend 48 dollars to get 128mb of
Micron?  Sounds like a good plan.

> > 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.
> 
> Lordy yes. For X performance, you get more bang out of your graphics card
> than RAM, but, up to some limit that you and I aren't liable to reach on
> a low-end desktop box, adding RAM never hurts. 

Should my ATI RageXL with 8mb video RAM suffice?  I guess it also helps
that I plan to use Gentoo and compile from source.

Thanks,

Bob Raymond