swap partition
is a linux swap partiton on the hdd equal to ram? or how does that work, it says "make a swap partiton" when you don't have enough ram, i have a 32stick and i want to run kde which requires 128...i have another 64 stick, so i have 96...i have two hdd's one being 6gb another 4gb, i would so make the 4gb just a linux swap parition if it's like ram ors omething...
yeah and i have an old 1998 emachine that's 366mhz, have 32mb ram now, hopefully adding 64 soon, what distro would be ideal? will knoppix 3.8 be fine to install? what suggestions |
it's not "equal" at all... it's like a windows pagefile. relative to ram is slow and annoying. more like any port in the storm. you'd only want a swap of say 200mb max. that box is never going to be able to much that would use up a load of ram.
most distro's would install fine, but you're never going to get kde or gnome running in a worthwhile state. |
yay. what was that last bit? "that box is never going to be able to much that would use up a load of ram"
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You can run Gnome or KDE on this box but it will be slow. You'd be better off running a more minimal window manager or desktop, like XFce, WindowMaker, Blackbox, Fluxbox or the countless others out there.. ;) |
for older pcs
thank you good sir, i was googling and yeah that's what i got, i actually ran blackbox on that pc awhile ago, i didn't like it, i like the more graphical interface like gnome or kde, so my problem is ram, i have another 64 stickkkkkk, so 96 mb of ram would run faster obviously, still wont be like it is when i'm running on my windows machine with 700+mb of ram, thanks for the suggestions, well..out of the ones you mentioned,. what have you tried, and what do you like about it?
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I think you should look at all screenshot, but XFce is probably the best choice. It just looks simplar to KDE or GNOME. Seen screenshots here: http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=overview&lang=en
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