[geeks] How low can you go...

Geoffrey S. Mendelson gsm at mendelson.com
Sat Mar 17 11:44:45 CDT 2007


On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:15:52PM +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> No, not with 8 MB RAM. I had to compile a custom kernal also. The
> GENERIC kernel needs a bit over 8 MB RAM, more then this poor, litle
> machine has.

Maybe you can find a old version of Linux (v1 kernel) or 386BSD. Both ran well 
on '386 machines with 4m RAM, including X.

Geoff.
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