Menno Duursma <menno@desktop.lan> says...
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>On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:02:25 +0100, logic7 wrote:
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>> [...] How's the current Slack9.1 distro on a 486 speedwise?
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>I have not tryed 9.1 on it (jet) but on a P54@60Mhz 16megs 9.0 runs fine.
>Note, this is without much boat (such as X).
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>> Would it be adviseable to use an older version of slack?
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>That depends upon what you want to use it for.
>Even X should not be a problem (useing TWM (or even FVWM)).
>If this is to be a server you might however want to look for a 100Mbit NIC.

One way to boost X performance is to use two 486 boxes, one as an
X client and the other as an X server.


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