Edwin Linux Fan wrote:
>In my experience, and we use Mandrake 7.1 as our
>office standard, your memory is too low.
>16MB on a new Linux Distro of the 2.2.x kernel will
>not run satisfactorily on anything less than 64mb.
>(don't be a masochist, MDK 7.x distros are slow to install,
>lalo na kung old hardware and low memory)
>
>Note: 64MB is your minimum for a Linux 2.2.x Kernel Distro.
> For Desktop needs
So it's a kernel thinggie, right?
>For those old notes about 4mb only for Linux,
>those were the old 1.x.x releases.
>
>Even the 2.0.x releases don't run in so low memory.
Not true! I was able to run muLinux which used a 2.0.36 kernel on this same
machine. I was even able to run X and enlightenment w/o a hitch and it wasn't even
that slow.
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