100 MHz 486? 32 megs of memory? It should fly! I'm running NetBSD 9 on both a Mac LC II with 10 megabytes of memory and on an LC III+ with 36 megs of memory. T

100 MHz 486? 32 megs of memory? It should fly! I'm running NetBSD 9 on both a Mac LC II with 10 megabytes of memory and on an LC III+ with 36 megs of memory. The LC II has a 16 bit memory bus and runs at 15 MHz, and it's... interesting. It can actually go multiuser and run sshd, although ssh logins have to have their timeout extended to ten minutes so logins can happen before they time out. The 33 MHz m68030 in the LC III+, with 36 megs of 32 bit memory, is fully usable. I can ssh without timeouts. I can run vi or vim. I can do things while it's running stuff in the background (making the man database, for instance, or compiling), and I can compile software natively just fine. Why is Linux so painful with about the same amount of memory, but with a CPU that's six times the speed? Hmmm...