On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 15:03 +0530, Mandar Mitra wrote: > > > This will not be an issue once installation is > > > complete, right? > > > > > > > It will definitely be. Any current version of > > Redhat/Fedora/Mandrake would crawl on less than 256M > > of RAM. And mind you, thats the minimum you need for > > smooth operation. > > > Now I'm confused. Sayamindu's mail suggests that anaconda is a > killer, but that's the *installation* process, no? Not something > that runs all the time? > > So what's the difference between distros at *runtime*? Won't they > all be running more or less the same kernel and the same set of > applications? >
Usually the Fedora tendency is to enable a huge number of services to start at bootup. Most of them are not required for the normal/sane home user, and it is usually a good idea to disable them. > > ps: On a different note, is this list archived? I'll probably need > to refer back to the Kernel 2.6.3 thread later on, and I'm wondering > if I should just save the messages. > http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.kolkata -hth- sdg -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://clai.net/sayamindu] Free Software: the Software by the People, of the People and for the People. Develop! Share! Enhance! and Enjoy! -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
