> A 486 can handle X just fine. 486's were our main X11 desktop machines at the office in the mid 90's (it has been the year of Linux on the desktop for me sinc

> A 486 can handle X just fine. 486's were our main X11 desktop machines at the office in the mid 90's (it has been the year of Linux on the desktop for me since 1995). The challenge is more that most modern X clients won't play well with a slow, memory constrained machine. I remember when X switched from monolithic server to modular one. I had to buy new GPU because S3 I had wasn't supported. I have bought ATI.