On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Rob OpenSuSE <rob.opensuse.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:
Why? With KDE4 plus Firefox 512MB RAM was perfectly adequate in my testing. In fact it is very hard to get the VM to use swap space at all, without increasing the default value of "swapiness"; which I think shows the default is poorly chosen.
Agreed. Those who make comments like that evidently don't have an older system, or if they do, don't use it. I regularly run on older hardware with few issue. Granted, it's not as fast as my 64bit machines, but why should I spend $$ I don't have to upgrade? The economy is not that great now, and it can be more expensive to upgrade an older system than a newer one.
There's no reason to tell ppl to not use old machines, just because you'ld not spec out such a machine for desktop. 256MB RAM is plenty for many SOHO server applications.
I run a server with 128MB. It don't need much to just serve up files. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org