[K12OSN] oldest feasible client pc? p166 reasonable?

[Doug Simpson]

Memory is the big thing.  64MB minimum. 
Less will work, but the client may reboot itself sometimes for no 
apparent reason.

Other than that, even 486 will work usably for general purpose stuff. I 
use them for general stuff around the house here with little or no problems.

Doug

light being wrote:

> I installed a P166 as a client that for some reason seems ridiculously 
> slow, even doing odd things.
>
> What's the oldest client that's actually reasonable to use normally?
>
> Long ago I had read tall stories about 486 and 386 clients, but 
> nowadays it seems that the Celeron-300  / 32mb ram I have is about 
> actual minimum... even they crash unless I enable the NFS-swapping in 
> fact.
>
> Ideally I am noticing the a client needs a 400mhz CPU and some 64mb 
> ram...
>
> Is there some thinner kernel or X.org to use somewhere that is still 
> practical?
>
> Seems there is some fat to cut in these kernel images.
>
>
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