Gervase Markham wrote: > Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: > > >>MacWorld, and MacAddict magazine both say that The more System RAM you >>have available for UNIX to use the better it runs. In fact they suggest >>the bare minimum install on any platform for Unix to Run efficiently is >>256MB. >> > > > This is patently false. Cut-down Linux distributions can run in 4Mb for > a command line, 8Mb for X, on a 486. Normal current Linux distributions > probably need a 32Mb Pentium, but to suggest they need 256Mb is laughable. > > >>It can run as low as 128 but not very fast. (The Mac uses a 100% >>RISC processor, which supposedly is better at using UNIX.) >> > > Processor architecture per se has negligible effect on how well a > particular operating system runs. The compilers are far more important; > but there's nothing in the design of Unix that means an implementation > of it would run faster or better when compiled for a RISC chip. > > Gerv > >
My Son interns for RedHat and looking over my shoulder at the moment is perplexed as to where people come up with these "gems". -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
