On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 19:31, Joe Dunsmore wrote:
> > 500Mhz and 192Meg of RAM is slow???!!!!
> 
> It's not slow, but sometimes I run out of memory.  As time goes on, 
> this happens less frequently however.
> 
> > My primary is a 750Mhz Duron with 768Meg of RAM running Win98SE 
> > (yeah,
> > 
> > yeah, I know).
> > My secondary is a 400Mhz Intell with 384Meg of RAM running 
> > Mandrake9.1
> > 
> > and it works great. Actually both PCs work great. I have no problems
> > with "speed" on either machine.
> 
> you have quite a bit more memory than I do.
> 
> > I may be way off base here,(let the flames begin!) but it seems that
> > Redhat is following in Microsoft's footsteps by "bloating" the
> > so-called
> > "basic" system, which in turn creates a slower system. At least with
> > SUSE you can choose a "bare-bones" install. My advice. Reload the
> > system
> > and this time manually go through the applications that are loaded 
> > and
> 
> but wouldn't that just take up room on my hard drive, not my memory?
> 
> > prune out some of the stuff that you never use, maybe even consider
> > going with Slackware or VectorLinux or Debian. I've got a great
> > article
> > that I printed out that guides you through installing a very "base"
> > Debian system, I think it takes less than 500Megs of disk space. I
> > could
> > probably scan it and send it out, or maybe even find the URL on the
> > printout. I never accept the "default" application load on any
> > operating system, Linux or Windows.
> 
> I plan on trying out a lot of different distros, but most of my memory 
> is taken up by X and gnome, how's redhat actually come into play here?  
> Could it be that gtk takes up more space than related windows libraries 
> and that when I use mozilla, this results in stuff in memory not doing 
> anything?  I'll repeat that actually right now, my system isn't going 
> into virtual memory but when I was first using it, that would happen 
> constantly, even when using the same apps.
> 
Im running Mandrake 9.2 with a gig of pc2100 on a xp2100 cpu, seems to
me that linux uses alot more memory than my win2k install, still plenty
left though, havent gone under 500mb free yet
> 
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