On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Roger Merchberger wrote:
freshly compiled LFS 5.1.1 with no services running:
9.2 Meg. My wife's
Shuttle running standard RedHat 9 & Nautilus for the GUI - a touch over
100Meg. It goes to show that enduser linux is sometimes no better now than
enduser Winders.]]
That may well be the influence of all the 20-something aged programmers
who never had to squeeze a program into 4K of memory (or less).
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