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... -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.engr.internet.org.ph/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
