Re: Is 64MB enough?
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:06:32AM -0400, J. Van Lierde wrote:
> John Moore wrote:
>
> >I'm a total Linux newbie who'd like to install Linux on my really old
> >PC. It has 64MB of RAM and a 4GB hard disk. The installation
> >documentation I've read at debian.org seems to indicate that this is
> >sufficient. Is that right? Thanks.
> >
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> I've run sarge with icewm on a 200Mhz Pentium with 64MB and found it
> barely usable, the disk was paging constantly. If you want to use your
> mouse, I think you have to pick your window manager (a lot of posters
> seem to like flux box) and apps for their size (i.e. forget about
> firefox, openoffice etc.) You want to spend some time mining the
> debian-user archive, this query comes up regularly.
>
> On the other hand, it runs real sweet with regular terminal sessions.
> For that reason, I rationized not throwing it out. It might be useful as
> a small server someday.
I'm using a 48MB 100MHz Pentium as a file server, and its performance is
adequate. I also use X on it, with icewm, but avoid *any* graphical
user-interfacing or web-wandering on it, because the graphics is
definitely too slow.
-- hendrik
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