Re: [SLUG] Newbie to LINUX

From: dopler2@juno.com
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 21:11:38 EDT


>You don't mention how much memory you have. To run Netscape and the
>like, you'll need at X Windows. X _will_ run in as little as about 8M
>of
>memory, but will be very slow. Note that with a VGA monitor, you'll
>get
>no better than 640x480 resolution on that monitor. You will also be
>limited color-wise, and Netscape is not fond of being in that
>situation.
>You will also need a swap partition equal to twice the size of your
>memory.
>
     I have 32 MEG of memory. That's all the slots on my PC will
accomodate.

     By the way, what kind of a distro is Turbo Linux?
Frank Starr

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