Re: General min/max questions

[Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@bln.de>]

Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> writes:

> I will be using my Debian machine as a workstation.  No outside
> access will be needed and my only networking will be through PPP.  I
> intend to run X and basically tinker, surf, program, and enjoy not
> using Microsoft products.  My questions is --> what can I do to
> minimize my memory/cpu use and maximize my machines potential??
> Would using a different getty help; are there daemons running that I
> do not need since I am not a server?  I have a 150+ and 64M of RAM
> plus a 96M swap area, running IDE because my family still wants
> Win95 and I am a poor college student.

There is a getty for console-only login (unfortunately I can't
remember its name), you should not install things like apache, bind,
nfs.  But with 64M of RAM there is no need to put too much work into
this. 

        Torsten

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