On 25 Jan 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Jesse writes: > > Sure, it's not a K6, and more ram would help, but this should be > > sufficient for a comfortably fast non-graphics-intensive workstation. > > He's running Corel, which means KDE with bells on. With only 24M he'll be > into swap before he touches the mouse. > > Dump KDE and install a small window manager such as icewm (or learn to use > the command line).
A little harsh, but probably true. I'm running KDE 1.1.2 on Debain 2.1 with 36M RAM, and end up using ~300k of swap if checked right after a startup. It appears to cruise at ~14M(?). If you slim down the kernel, link ash to /bin/sh, and use mingetty instead of getty, it will probably work ok for non-graphics intensive stuff. - Bruce
