Your milaege will vary. My desktop computer has 448MB RAM now and I do not need or even have a swap partition anymore. In fact, I've never used up all the RAM with whatever I'm doing.
On Monday 12 November 2001 08:19, you wrote: > At 10:45 AM 11/12/2001 +0100, 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. > > We had Mandrake 7.0 for i486 running on 2 486/66's with 8 MB ram. There > are, of course, linux's that will run on much less--heck there is even a > linux replacement / add on for the PalmOS. And, if I remember correctly, > some team got linux running on a wristwatch. > > Michael
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