Re: Kool download complete linux off of CD Works
"Jonathan Hall" <[email protected]>
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That's baloney! I've run X in 8mb before, and I'm sure it could be configured to run in less. -- Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Holmes" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 5:22 PM Subject: [linux-help] Re: Kool download complete linux off of CD Works > > index.html choose "en" it explains that anything less than 64meg of ram will not support xwindows. > > mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: bruce [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 10:39 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [linux-help] Re: Kool download complete linux off of CD Works > > > On Thursday 19 December 2002 09:48 am, you wrote: > > >Don't make me come down there and bitch slap you! ;) > > > Actually, you should be surprised it ran at all, since the > > docs state quite plainly not to even TRY to run Knoppix and X > > with less than 90 megs of memory. > > Please don't hit me. I did look for something called > "requirements" and didn't find it. Most of the docs I found > were in German. I learned that "inhaltsvertzeichnis" means > table of contents. > > The last paragraph of my "review" does say I was quite > impressed. And I was. I believe Knoppix is a big step forward > in ease of installation. As I recall, it only asked me one > question about the hardware - giving a choice of no of > characters per line and lines per screen. I chose 80x25 from > about 10 choices. Everything else it found on its own. > > A number of attributes can be assigned or changed at boot time > - I didn't study these or try any of them. Maybe I could have > had a better screen - the monitor I was using is 1024x768 > capable. > > I believe we will see more of Knoppix. > bruce > -- This is the [email protected] list. To unsubscribe, > visit http://www.complete.org/cgi-bin/listargate-aclug.cgi > -- This is the [email protected] list. To unsubscribe, > visit http://www.complete.org/cgi-bin/listargate-aclug.cgi > > -- This is the [email protected] list. To unsubscribe, visit http://www.complete.org/cgi-bin/listargate-aclug.cgi