x-windows mem requirements

[Russell Power]

I had the opportunity to run X on an old Compaq Pentium 90 I picked up.  I
think I had Redhat 6.2 on it, and its main purpose was as a server, but I
put X on it for fun.  X ran decently on it - however, the one hitch I had
was that the video card (which was built into the mainboard) was not
supported - so I ended up with some rather low-res support.  Just to note -
I was running Afterstep as my WM.

I didn't have a chance to run Netscape or any other graphical browser on
it - sorry.

Anyway, I'd just make sure that the computers have a supported video card.

Hope that helped...

--Russell


----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Honsinger" <Honsinger at whs.wsd.wednet.edu>
To: "UW Linux Group" <linux at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: x-windows mem requirements


> Well, I just got pressed into becoming a small network admin here. A
teacher at
> my school got a palet of those government computers, they're all pretty
much
> pentium 90's, with a couple of 100's. She wants me to help her set them up
for
> use mainly as web computers for the classrooms. Most of them have 16MB of
ram,
> some 32MB. My question is, how well is linux going to run x-windows with
16MB
> of ram? Would that be acceptable for browsing the web? I haven't had a
chance
> to work with or install linux on lower end computers yet, so I'm not sure
how
> well it works. I know linux runs fine on low end computers, but I'm not
sure
> about x. I would really appreciate advice on this, and more general advice
on
> the best way to proceed in this situation if you're feeling typeative...
=)
> I think I'll need to setup a firewall and ip masq for these 8 computers.
The
> network guy here in my school district is extremely paranoid about
security, so
> that is an issue - I have to be able to sell this to him before he lets
all
> these computers on the network. Thanks for any help!
>
>  - Benjamin
>