From: richb@rkbhome.jti.com (Rich Braun) Subject: Re: To cache or not to cache. Which machine to buy. Date: 12 Feb 1993 01:29:38 GMT
zeisset@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Stephan Zeisset) writes:
>Recommendation: min. 4 MB RAM, 40 MB Harddisk
Those truly are *minimum*. If you want to run X and/or do compilations,
8Mb is the minimum, and that'll probably seem small soon enough.
X takes about 20Mb. Before I loaded X onto my system, I was using
about 30-35Mb of disk space, plus 8Mb swap. 40Mb is really too
little; 120Mb is a better idea if you're planning to keep the system a
few years without having to upgrade constantly.
Linux is by far the most efficient *nix operating system when it comes
to mass storage. Commercial vendors (and 386bsd) recommend 100Mb as a
minimum; the fact that Linux could conceivably live on a 40Mb hard
drive is remarkable.
-rich