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Re: Is 64MB enough?



Thanks. That seems to be the general consensus.

From: Colin <cwvca_SPAMNOT@hotmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Is 64MB enough?
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 19:50:34 -0400

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.

64MB ought to be enough.

(sorry, couldn't resist)

But seriously, 64MB would be enough for a basic X environment but if you
want to run GNOME or KDE or OpenOffice.org, forget it.  A console machine
would be no problem.


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