Install on 32 meg celeron machine
Rok Papež
rok.papez at lugos.si
Sat Dec 27 13:53:17 UTC 2003
Hello Steve.
Dne sobota 27 december 2003 14:37 je Steve Watford napisal(a):
> timeout errors. Guess I'm just going to have upgrade the ram. Funny that
> for linux we need to upgrade the hardware that WinNT will run on. Sort of
> a reversal. I know there are lighter versions of linux out there, but we
> have settled on RH,Fedora.
The problem is that modern UNIX GUIs do follow the hardware evolution and that
users do demand run-time objects, complex interaction of tools and eye
candies. That all comes with a price as desktop environments are designed to
be very object oriented and thus very memory hungry.
Have you tried running IceWM or fvwm2 as a window manager ? The applictions
will still be a problem, but Opera and/or Mozilla Firebird could maybe work
on this configuration.
However :) you will need to upgrade the memory... 32MB is very little for a
desktop. Small server will work (I'd still put at least 64MB into it, just to
be on the safe side), I have a K6-166/64MB serving 120GB worth of files with
Samba and NFS, running Squid, CVS, ssh, ISC dhcpd, Bind and Apache. It works
like a charm :).
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best regards,
Rok Papež
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