14 Dec
2001
14 Dec
'01
1:05 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:48:50PM -0700, Ben Franchuk wrote:
Remember Linux too needs lots of memory. With >16
meg on a video card
your OS needs about 16x that. It is the video display that is the
killer.
X wants lots of memory. And once you have X up you probably want to
run some common bloat-ware (Netscape, Mozilla) and then you will start
to need memory.
But even then, I can run X and a zillion Netscape windows on my
basement server. It has 64MB and, though it does use swap, it doesn't
have to dip very deep.
Granted, that is a lot more RAM than the olden days, but RAM is also a
lot cheaper than the olden days.
-kb