Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:36:06 + Nuno Magalh__es wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Daniel Lannstrom wrote: > > [...] Also, > > don't expect that firefox will be very fast. You might want to install > > another browser. I have heard that Opera has a smaller memory footprint > > (don't knw

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:46:13 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty (dtu...@vianet.ca) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:09:33PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thorny wrote: > > > Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? > > > > I stand cor

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:15:56PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty on 04/03/09 14:46, wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:09:33PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > >>On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thorny wrote: > >>>Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? >

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Adam Hardy wrote: Douglas A. Tutty on 04/03/09 14:46, wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:09:33PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thorny wrote: Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? I stand corrected, minimal 48

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Adam Hardy
Douglas A. Tutty on 04/03/09 14:46, wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:09:33PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thorny wrote: Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? I stand corrected, minimal 48MB, recommended 512MB.[1] You're using 25

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:09:33PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thorny wrote: > > Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? > > I stand corrected, minimal 48MB, recommended 512MB.[1] You're using > 256, i had a system with 196 but this

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thorny wrote: > Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? I stand corrected, minimal 48MB, recommended 512MB.[1] You're using 256, i had a system with 196 but this one only has 128... we'll see. Thanks for the heads-up. [1] http://debian

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Thorny
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:51:16 +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > From the Debian manual, a minimal install for X > requires 512MB. Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? In the Debian Installation Guide I can find it as a recommenced amount but not as a required amount,

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-03 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 March 2009, Nuno Magalhães was heard to say: > From what i've been able to find, this pc will only handle a max of > 384MB of ram[1] (3*128). From the Debian manual, a minimal install > for X requires 512MB. From my experience i did hav

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Daniel Lannstrom wrote: > [...] Also, > don't expect that firefox will be very fast. You might want to install > another browser. I have heard that Opera has a smaller memory footprint > (don't knwo if that's true with current versions though). Yeah after sending i

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-03 Thread Daniel Lannstrom
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 06:51:16PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > gnome-basic will do? Other suggestions? Other window managers? Don't use gnome. The current versions will grind the computer to a halt. Instead get fluxbox or some other lightweight window manager. Also, don't expect that firefox w