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



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