On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:09:33PM +0000, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thorny <thorntreeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? > > I stand corrected, minimal 48MB, recommended 512MB.[1] You're using > 256, i had a system with 196 but this one only has 128... we'll see. > Thanks for the heads-up. > > [1] http://debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch03s04.html.en
I have a PII-233 with 64 MB ram. (I have lesser boxes but they run OpenBSD now). I also have a PII-450 but it has 1GB ram. Both use fluxbox (I hate DTEs). Firefox causes thrashing (swap contention) on 64 MB ram, so on that box I use links2, although it _can_ use firefox if a particular site needs it as a last resort. The box will do everything I need except firefox and photo-editing, but then again, so will my 486 (at least it did before X 3.? was dropped and along with it support for the S3 video hardware accel). With a smaller box, you just need to educate the users to be more UNIX-like in their outlook. Use LaTex instead of OpenOffice, fluxbox instead of Gnome or KDE. The big problem with X apps is that everything is moving to either KDE or GTK-2.x which are heavy-weight widget sets. GTK-1.x was much lighter. I hope this helps. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
