On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Philip Blundell wrote: > 64MB isn't quite enough RAM to run things like GNOME locally though.
Uh-oh. My x86 box runs HelixGNOME 1.2, Sawfish, Netscape, xemacs, half-a-dozen gnome-terminals, a few panel monitors and assorted applications, and it's not that bad -- it only has 32MB and a P166. I do try quite hard not to run anything extraneous, though (you might argue GNOME is extraneous compared with fvwm I suppose). I wouldn't've /thought/ its IDE interface (four years old) is especially faster than whatever's in the Netwinder. Am I just unusally lucky, or have a usage pattern that requires few swap page-ins or something? Maybe it is really slow and I've just forgotten what fast is. c.
