From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gebser@ameritech.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: minimal system requirements Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:27:17 -0500 (EST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84lm0o8wye.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <87of5kt3za.fsf@medelklassen.com> Reply-To: gebser@ameritech.net NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044970036 18230 80.91.224.249 (11 Feb 2003 13:27:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:27:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18iaRN-0004jd-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:27:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iaSy-0003ZJ-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:28:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iaSJ-0003Gb-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:28:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iaRq-000354-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:27:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailhost2-bcvloh.bcvloh.ameritech.net ([66.73.20.44] helo=mailhost.bcv2.ameritech.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iaRT-0002qz-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:27:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailhost.bcv2.ameritech.net by mailhost.bcv2.ameritech.net convert rfc822-to-8bit; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:26:58 -0500 Original-Received: from heidegger.mousecar.net ([65.43.208.211]) by mailhost.bcv2.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP <20030211132657.YTRC366.mailhost.bcv2.ameritech.net@heidegger.mousecar.net>; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:26:57 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-To: Karl Eklund In-Reply-To: <87of5kt3za.fsf@medelklassen.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6559 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6559 Karl Eklund at 18:55 (UTC+0100) on 10 Feb 2003 said: =3D kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: =3D = =3D > Cyprian Laskowski writes: =3D > = =3D > > I will be moving to Japan for a while and my friend has an old la= ptop =3D > > which he's offered to give me with the following basic specs: Pen= tium =3D > > 75, 24 MB RAM, and 540 MB harddrive. =3D > > =3D > > I'd like to install a debian linux system on it with X, and prett= y =3D > > much nothing else (although it would also be great to have LaTeX = and =3D > > ghostscript, but I think that's pushing it). =3D > = =3D > I think the X11 will be the big problem. Hm. 24MB of RAM. That's= =3D > really really small. =3D = =3D I don't mean to argue for the sake of arguing now, but we run X, =3D Windowmaker and Emacs on a 24 MB laptop (which has a slightly faster =3D CPU than the one mentioned, though - 150 or something). It works (to =3D actually work on, I mean). It's not a question of *whether* it will work, but rather of the quality = of the performance. = ken