Another Newbie Question

Jonathan Hutchins hutchins at opus1.com
Tue Oct 29 16:02:43 CST 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Fowler" <jfowler at westrope.com>

> You can defiantly run X on older systems. I've heard of many people
successfully
> running X on 486s without any problems.

Uh huh.  What's the lowest level of hardware YOU have actually USED XWindows
on?

Sure, it runs on 486's, that's all there was when Linux got started.

> Basically you can compile your kernel to
> access your graphics hardware directly ...

A related question:  What's the minimum level of hardware YOU have actually
used to recompile a kernel?




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