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From: andreas@fly.mgen.uni-heidelberg.de (Andreas Helke)
Subject: Re: bsd vs linux????
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 17:55:40
In article <27n3kvINN1tg@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>In <CDDH3A.13A@kaiwan.com> luke@kaiwan.com ( Luke ) writes:
>>I am new in this area. So I want to try those OS out in my junk PC.
>>PC 386/40 with MFM/HD 80 Mega and 2 Mega RAM only.
>>Last, I tried FreeBsd. Yes, I was in the sad mode. Last hope to
>>my name server. :-(
>>It works. It boots. BUT, it says "Too little RAM memory. Warning,
>>running in degraded mode."
>>Now I am going to find out what that means.....
>2 M of RAM are definitely too few. (You might boot an early Linux
>there with much more success than an old *BSD. But the old Linux
>kernel missed lotta functionality. If you comment out all the
>networking, *-file system etc. options from BSD config, you might
>have luck, too. -- But, that's not what you want.)
In linux you can run almost everything in 2 MB RAM, if you have enough
swapspace and enough patience. I even read a report of running X with 2 MB
RAM. But with less than 4 MB you have to define and activate swap, before a
complete intallation with the SLS install scripts can suceed.
I run linux with 8 MB RAM and 12 MB swap. After booting, free reports 1.7 MB
memory used. The rest of 5.5 MB is used as disk buffer, until it is needed for
something more important.
Andreas
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Andreas Helke, Molekulare Genetik, Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany
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