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| 81520 | 2002-09-20 21:47:00 | What is the best thing to spend money on to run Linux quickly?? Ram Fast Harddrive (7200rpm) Cpu Video M/B Thanks |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 81521 | 2002-09-20 22:36:00 | depends on what you need ;-) it depends on the distros a bit.....but ..... first thing is to get enough RAM. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 81522 | 2002-09-21 01:45:00 | Well it will mainly be Redhat and Mandrake and Peanutlinux in GUI mode (kde) How much ram is enough? I'm thinking about 256mb. |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 81523 | 2002-09-21 01:53:00 | 256 will be ok. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 81524 | 2002-09-21 01:55:00 | That should be ample. You will have noticed that Linux uses less memory that that otherOS.;-) Open a terminal window and run top in it. That will show you your memory use and CPU load as you work ... it's very interesting. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 81525 | 2002-09-21 02:15:00 | unless you compare it to win95. try finding an operating system (with gdi) that can run on 16meg ram ;-) :^O |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 81526 | 2002-09-21 02:28:00 | I've run Linux with X-Window on an 8MB machine. (Not the latest versions with KDE/Gnome). GEM ran nicely in 2MB. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 81527 | 2002-09-21 02:51:00 | I'm running with 256MB and no swap without problems. It never seems to actually use more than about 100mb, the rest just gets use as disk buffers/cache. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 81528 | 2002-09-21 03:04:00 | With RH7.2, I increased memory on my "fast" P120 from 32 to 96MB. I was using a SCSI drive as swap. I pulled out the drive, and Linux didn't care. ;-) That's using Gnome from time to time. (I eventually made a /swap file, but it doesn't use it much.) | Graham L (2) | ||
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