Hello,
Today I installed Linux on my laptop. It�s a Pentium II 266 with 80
MB of RAM. I successfully configured XFree86 and compiled Wine.
I�m writing this email from X, using Pegasus Mail (Win32 version)
thru Wine. I�m sorry, but I haven�t found a comparable mail program
with native Linux support. Any suggestions?
This time Wine didn�t take more than 10 minutes to compile, and I
was using the computer at another v . I was looking for a good
editor on my Conectiva CD, but couldn�t find any. Is there a GUI-
based text editor for Linux? I want some DOS Edit or Borland Turbo
IDEs clone. I don�t want to learn yet another user interface.
Wine does take a couple of seconds to load, but I guess that it is
still acceptable. Nobody told me about his/her experience with
Wine last time I asked. Maybe this time I�ll get luckier ...
I need help figuring out what �free� reports. Here�s what I got after the
Wine configure script finished, and before running the Wine make:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 79296 77264 2032 6572 32476
37160
-/+ buffers/cache: 7628 71668
Swap: 128988 24 128964
But where there only 2032kb of free memory when there weren�t
any major programs running? What do �buffers� and �shared� mean?
Whatever they were, they were eating almost all of my RAM?
During the make wine, I issued two �free�. Here they go:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 79296 77560 1736 9296 48204
17296
-/+ buffers/cache: 12060 67236
Swap: 128988 116 128872
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 79296 76324 2972 9320 45212
19004
-/+ buffers/cache: 12108 67188
Swap: 128988 116 128872
Then I issued my last �free� after the compilation had finished:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 79296 41388 37908 7464 1328
36156
-/+ buffers/cache: 3904 75392
Swap: 128988 116 128872
Can somebody explain to me what this info means? I tried �man
free�, but it doesn�t describe what the command reports.
Thanks in advance,
Jerem�as Galletti
