On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:38:43 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I thought that using linux had a smaller Ram fingerprint. Yet as for >previous posts people have recommended 500+.What happen to small, lean and >compact. I know linux can be powerful, but from this point it's seems to >me, linux like other things seem just demanding more. I mean what happen to >slow processor and low ram?
What happened is user friendliness, help functions, X-window developments and desktop managers like KDE. These are eating up RAM and resources. You can still run linux on a 16Mb ram 386 but then you can better forget about a graphical environment. A server would be good like this. Paul -- He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. -Yiddish proverb http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.7.0
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