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  • From: "Karolis Lyvens" <karolisl AT gmail.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Win95/IE vs BL3/Links2 on an old 486 w/ 8MB RAM
  • Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:19:10 +0200

On 11/21/06, Karolis Lyvens <karolisl AT gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:32:10PM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> > If anyone wants to seriously consider resurrecting a machine
> > with 8MB RAM, web browsing is not a practical application.
>
> Links (non-graphical) works fine with 8mb RAM. Graphical
> browsing on 8mb RAM also works fine when the 8mb RAM machine
> is used as an Xterminal.

As i remember from my experience, you can SSH, run X server (with remote
applications), browse web with Lynx quite smoothly with 4MB of RAM
Links 0.99, not Lynx
(swap space is mandatory though)





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