You have a point. It depends on your WM too. 64MB mem usage was on my desktop with KDE or GNOME. I have a laptop with 20MB RAM running kernel 2.2.19 and X but I use ICEWM and it all fits within 20MB. KDE and GNOME are monsters. My experience.
On Monday 12 November 2001 01:45, you wrote: > ltiu wrote: > >My experience: > > > >64 MB is minimum for Linux running X (with nothing else). Meaning, it will > >use up 64MB with kernel and X(KDE or GNOME) alone. If you use a lighter > >window manager, maybe your 64MB will go further. If you start other > > programs, like say Netscape or Koffice or a couple of bash x-terminal > > shells, then your machine will start swapping. > > I don't know if what you say is true, and if it is, there's really > a regression in Linux performance. Before, it was possible to run Linux > in a 16MB machine. Kernel using less than 4MB and X less than 4MB too. > I can't imagine that kernel and X alone could use up to 64MB.
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