On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 23:01 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> Yes, next time do a clean install! Your system has too little
memory
> installed. You need at least 256 MB, preferably more.
Which is a ridiculous state of affairs IMHO. What if the user only wants a
light desktop system, or a headless server. For these things 128M should be
fine. Not exactly nippy but would run OK.
As things stand at the moment, the standard anaconda installer requires as
much memory as a full gnome/kde desktop. Is it just me me thinks this is just
a tad silly.
There are many desktops out there that run fine with 128M, XFCe or fvwm for
instance. XFCE is even part of extras. So an installer that requires more ram
that the system it is installing.... go figure.
Chris
It is silly but that is the way it is. It reminds me that I just saw
"Showstoppers", the book about the development of WinNT. An argument
arose between Bill Gates and David Carver (the developer). Gates said it
should run in 1M of ram ; Carver held out for 8M.
Now we have Vista that takes 1G. That's progress?
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