[Gllug] back on the linux front

[Martin A. Brooks]

- 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. 

Depends what you mean by "bloated".

> Your best bet is either to buy more RAM, or to ditch KDE in
> favour of something more lightweight.
>   

My work laptop has a gig of RAM.  I'm currently running Icedove, Firefox 
with a dozen tabs open, xchat and 20 or so terminals all on top of KDE, 
all from Debian (Lenny), of course.

thunkpod:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1003        891        111          0         65        460
-/+ buffers/cache:        364        638
Swap:         1907          0       1907

Subtracting the cache means that's all sitting comfortably within 512Mb 
with no swap in use.


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