> My impression is that a current Nevada build with
> Gnome desktop
> will not work decently if it has less than 2 GB of
> RAM.

I assure you that that is just an impression. I'm running snv_61 on my 1.2GHz 
Athlon with 896MB of RAM, and pah-lenty of free RAM to spare (roughly 462MB) 
after I'm logged in and running StarOffice 8, RealPlayer, Firefox and 
Thunderbird.

I am beginning to feel the pain of using a seven year old system as a desktop 
though; the system is beginning to be "CPU challenged", especially with JDS. 
JDS is slow. If I didn't have that NVidia graphics accelerator with the drivers 
to help offload some of the work, it would be unusable.

> This is really bad. Firefox + Xserver will soon
> consume 1.3 GB together
> and a 1 GB system will start excessive paging. Is
> this really needed?

What is ridiculous is that one needs 1GB of RAM for a graphical installation. 
That is really unacceptable, and it's a self-afflicted slap in the face of 
Solaris engineering.
 
 
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