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On 19 January 2007 23:46, Vlad Dogaru wrote: |
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> On 1/19/07, b.n. <brullonulla@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a |
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> > minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience, |
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> > but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that allows outdated |
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> > machines to be still usable -the CPU is rarely a problem, unless you |
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> > often do something quite computationally intensive. |
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> I have 384 megs of RAM and no imediate possibility of buying more. I |
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> realise it is arguably sufficient for many lightweight applications, but, |
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> as I mentioned, it is becoming increasingly frustrating, even with the real |
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> power of Gentoo and Fluxbox (the two have changed my life -- literally). |
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This is odd.My main workstation also has 384MB of ram. I run a full KDE |
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session and do not experience any slow down. Right now, I have open: 9 |
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konqueror windows (not tabs), kmail, kmahjongg, konsole with 3 sessions, |
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noatun, kcalc. My background is a 1024x768 photo which also takes some |
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memory. Switching between virtual desktops is instantaneous, all apps are |
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very responsive. |
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One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all |
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apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just |
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once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic collection of unrelated |
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apps, they all draw in different libraries and memory usage goes up. |
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Uwe |
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A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 |
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Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 |
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