Re: S-up and emacs -nw?

[ken <ken@cleveland.lug.net>]

Spake Fredrik Staxeng at 14:33 (UTC+0200) on 20 Oct 2002:

= "Joe Casadonte" <jcasadonte@northbound-train.com> writes:
= 
= >Fredrik,
= >
= >On 19 Oct 2002, Fredrik Staxeng wrote:
= >
= >> "Joe Casadonte" <jcasadonte@northbound-train.com> writes:
= >>
= >>>1) I ultimately want to run this on a laptop running Debian, with no
= >>>   X support (I only have 24 meg of memory and 100 meg of hard drive
= >>>   space left).  Is there a better terminal type than 'linux' to
= >>>   use?  Can I just arbitrarily reset the terminal type?
= >>
= >> 24 megs used to be plenty for X + twm + xterm + Emacs, but perhaps
= >> not anymore. But anyway, just resetting the terminal type will not
= >> do any good.
= >
= >I saw somewhere, and I can't find it now, that console was OK with 12
= >or 16 Meg of RAM, and X wanted 128!  I can't find that at the moment.
= >Maybe that is the best thing to do -- I'll have to find some more disk
= >space, though.

Many years ago I ran Slackware on a 486 with 16M of RAM, including X and
fvwm.  Just recently I set up a RH7.2 box running X, fvwm2, apache,
Twiki, and other, more standard services with just 64M of RAM.


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