Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 01:19:56 +0900
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: B DOT S DOT Runnacles AT soton DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Linux

   Dear all,

   Does anyone know of a group like ours regarding Linux, as I am

Best bet is Usenet comp.os.linux.*.  If you can't do Usenet, there are
the linux-activist lists.  Look on sunsite.unc.edu, /pub/Linux.  There
should be more readmes there than you can flip a flop at.  Linux
readmes are generally called HOWTO, BTW.

   considering installing it on my system.  Is it more stable than DOS,
   and are there problems in using it in conjunction with other OSs.

No.  A beta version of Windows NT drilled my HD once, but that's not a
compatibility problem.  OS/2's boot manager is very selffish, but
Linux's LILO will accomodate it.

   What is the practical minimum hardware requirement, I have a 486DX66
   with 8Mb.

You can do Linux, Linux with X windows may be a little sluggish.
Linux + X + any real time stuf or heavy network load (eg, a Web node
getting 15000 accesses a day) would be painful.

You need to devote about 200MB of HD to the OS in the normal
configuration.  This can be pared down a lot, but the basic assumption is
you've got at least that much to devote to Linux, and it takes a bit
of tweaking to figure it out.

   Thanks in advance


   Ben Runnacles
   Vision Speech and Signal Processing Group
   University of Southampton, UK.

Love linux....
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