Hi,
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Jacob G Podipara <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Linux or Puppy linux, that should work out.
> The biological equivalent our brain has not had a model upgrade for billions
> of years. It processes
> inputs of greater complexity, greater detail than at child stage without
> upgrades. Rather than
Not really. Our brain has been having upgrades, may be every
second, through the process of evolution :)
> hardware we probabaly need less intensive software or require applications
> consuming less.
> Linux, Unix, Solaris were movements in that direction.
Yes, true. But the whole thing is market driven. 10 years back,
an average desktop computer had 64 MB, or at most 128 MB of RAM. But
now, we have 8 GB of RAM easily. So, software developers want to take
advantage of that and write apps that consume more memory. Also, a lot
of people have started to ignore memory leaks.
As someone mentioned in another thread, you can still run
Debian, without GUI, on a 64 MB machine. It might be possible with
other distros as well.
<speculation_and_guesswork>
Another point of view is, for companies to run and do business, people
need to buy those RAMs. And we won't buy it if we think it is a
overkill. So, there might be a conscious effort from certain group of
people to write apps in such a way that you need all those memory and
processing power.
</speculation_and_guesswork>
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