[Gllug] back on the linux front

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, - Tethys wrote:

> Sadly, yes, it's now normal. A machine with 512MB or RAM will struggle
> to run any of the bloated modern Linux desktops without swapping
> heavily. Your best bet is either to buy more RAM, or to ditch KDE in
> favour of something more lightweight.

I'm sitting here writing this on a laptop with 512M RAM running Ubuntu. I 
never see it using swap.

Is there something particular to KDE that is a bigger memory hog than 
Gnome?

Jason
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