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James Miller wrote:
> 
> "486," "30 pin dram" and "Mozilla" do not belong 
> together in the same sentence.  

I agree.  The full Mozilla is too heavy to be the primary 
browser for a 486.  Firebird is slightly better, but probably 
best used as a secondary browser (the one you use when your 
primary browser hits a page that is too demanding).  For the 
primary 486 browser, I would recommend dillo or links -g.    

> Steven runs Mozilla on a BL2 install, 

I prefer FireBird to Mozilla.  Firebird is a stripped down 
version of Mozilla.

> but that's on a P 166 with 64MB RAM.  That's probably 
> close to the bottom end in terms of system resources 
> required to make Mozilla run tolerably.

Definitely the bottom end.

> If you wanna try Mozilla on a 486, it better be a DX4 
> 100-120 with 64MB RAM.  

I agree.

> Lesser systems have run Opera 6.03 for some on this list, 

Opera definitely works better on a 486 than Mozilla.

> though 32MB RAM should probably be a minimum there for 
> reasonable performance.  

I agree.  32mb RAM and a high-end 486.

> To get around the multi-user stuff in BL, you could always 
> set up your machine to automatically log you in as root user.  
> I've forgotten which init script one edits to get this, 

/etc/inittab

In the c1 line, replace /sbin/agetty with /bin/bash -login

Cheers,
Steven