Re: [SLUG] Newbie to LINUX

From: Glen (gurensan@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 00:07:31 EDT


Turbo's ok from what I hear. Isn't it derived from Debian? I dunno, I have a
CD but never tried it. I'd imagine if it's based on Debian that it's probly
not as much of a hog as Mandrake or Suse.

        Glen "I have no clue" Canaday

On Monday 13 August 2001 09:11 pm, you wrote:
> >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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