On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:01:29PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Can anyone here help me get in touch w/ Gijo Sevilla?

My cuz ought to reply to you any time now... :)

> Hasn't anyone here noticed that the Red Hat distro is consuming more and more
> memory than Slackware? I remember installing Red Hat 6.2 on a 486DX4 w/ 16 MB
> of memory, and it appeared to be outperformed by Slackware 7 on the same machine.

Outperformed in what way?  How did you measure it?  What was it doing?

> I was able to install Slackware 7 on a 486DX33 w/ 8MB of RAM and it was still
> graceful (of course, I didn't bother to install the X Window System). Running
> Red Hat 6.2 on such a machine wouldn't be viable. Does this have something to
> do w/ Slackware's philosophy?

Guess it does.  Slackware was designed to be relatively lean and mean.
I made a rant here once about Red Hat's bloat that generated a very long
thread; read the archives for whole story...

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