enough memory?
hi everyone
A Friend of mine has a HPvectra PI processor 2.5gb and 16Mb of Ram. he wants to try linux. Could it be a problem running XDesktop's with 16MB of Ram memory? with any of the following distro's? I have Mandrake 8, Suse 9.0, Debian woody, Slackware 8.1 He was using Windows 98, definitely too slow. He wants a home computer, with regular aplications such as: Word, Excel, printing, scaning, etc... Thanks for your help!!! |
I haven't tried that :)
But on an old machine with 64MB, X and fluxbox as the WM OpenOffice, for example, was no fun ;) I'd suggest he should get some extra RAM scnd hand, try to make it at least 64, even better 128MB ... :) Cheers, Tink |
I ran FC2 pretty comfortably with 128 megs, so you may have similar results with those distros also. If I had fluxbox when I had 64mb ram, then it may have been more comfortable back then :P
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Thank you very much, maybe getting more Ram, would be a good option for him.
because introduce someone to the black screen to use VI, can be a little bizarre. humm....!!! |
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