Linux/TNOS

Scott Currie scurrie at us.ibm.com
Mon Oct 27 09:49:03 PST 2003





I guess I should have mentioned, I have no plans to load X support. The
display is a black and white LCD with max resolution of 640x480 (standard
VGA).  I do have a working Xconfig file, but why bother?  The plan is to
have this machine move data, not work as a client.

Also, I do have a drive loaded with a real basic RedHat 5.2 load that does
work (even has X support), but I haven't tried getting AX.25 working on it
yet (when did the kernel support of AX.25 start?).  I also don't know if
TNOS or any of the other front ends will running under RH 5.2.

-SCURRIE-



                                                                                                                                       
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I wouldn't try Mandrake on a 486.  The performance of this graphical
interface is terrible.  Just to open a simple text editor took 20
seconds.  Opening Netscape took over 1 minute.  Bringing up a menu
from the main display took 20 seconds or more.  The box was a
486DX-100 with 48 MB of RAM, and a 1.2G hard drive.

As a simple non-graphical OS, it worked just fine, but then it
reminded me of the olden days of DOS.

73,
Bill Bytheway
K7TTY



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