[Gllug] back on the linux front

[John Winters]

- Tethys wrote:
> On 4/13/07, Bradut Boghita <bradut at bradut.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is this normal ? Is there a particular debian based desktop that you would recommend for a, presumably slow machine now ?
> 
> 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.

Huh?  The laptops of both my wife and my son have just 512M of RAM and 
they run Gnome and lots of apps just fine.  I'd agree that 256M is a bit 
tight (although perfectly usable) but 512M is still a generous amount of 
RAM for a Linux desktop.

I admit I'm typing this on a machine with 1G of RAM, but of that 
currently 211256k is unused and 560564k is cache, meaning that less than 
  280M is seriously in use.  I've been working on it for about 4 hours 
and have Firefox, RealPlayer, Thunderbird, a few terminals and a game 
running.

John
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