A long time ago (around Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:59:27PM +0800) in a galaxy far, far away, someone named Michael Peligro wrote:
> Kelan kaya liliit ang memory requirements ng mga apps na ito? Gumawa > si Linus ng maliit at makapangyarihang kernel na puwedeng tumakbo sa > 386, tapos babawiin lang ng mga GUI apps, desktop manager at X- > server ang advantage na ito kasi kelangan nila ng mala-higanteng > memory. Noon, masaya na ako sa Pentium 120 with Microsoft Word at > Windows 95, 16MB lang ang memory. Sana lumiit ulit. Paano kaya > paliitin? Hmmmm... > I think it won't be smaller in the near future ;( If you really have a less-endowed setup, you could always adjust by selecting smaller alternatives that do the job also (ie. Opera or Galeon [just don't run Mozilla] for web browsing; don't go for GNOME or KDE bloat; go for Abiword and Gnumeric instead of OOo 1.0 for your desktop suite). For my less endowed boxes I use Blackbox as my window manager, abiword and gnumeric for the apps, and opera for a web browser (though there's dillo, but I'm already happy with opera ;) These less endowed machines are Pentium 120MHz with 16MB of RAM too... The only hassle is updating, upgrading, installing or uninstalling packages (as these workhorses run on Debian Woody), wherein the slowdown means I need to watch 30 minutes of anime before it ends ;) But for most usage (like surfing the net, chatting, sending mail, typing company reports) it has been running in an acceptable speed (faster than Win95 since the fat has been sucked out). Of course, you can always go for upgrading thine hardware. Not a bad idea... but sometimes unacceptable (either you can't just dump the hardware, like me, or you don't have the budget, again like me ;) he he he... -- -->paolo Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG KeyID: 0xEADFF6F4 University of the Philippines Manila _______________________________________________________________________________ "I think ideology sucks. This world would be a better place if people have less ideology, and a whole lot more "I do this because it's FUN and because others might find it useful, not because I have religion."" --Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________________________________________ Philippine Free Network Group free.net.ph _ 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]
