Question then. I play around with old Mac86k boxes from time to time for fun. They still impress me with how much modern GUI like stuff they accomplish with mem in the 2mb - 8mb range. How is it that they could pull off memory usage that small and yet we can not? On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 10:22, Rob Adams wrote: > Just X and nautilus and gnome-panel running and you're already way past > 32 MB. Not to mention the rest of the desktop. 32MB is simply not > enough memory to run a modern GUI. I've tried running Gnome 2 on 64MB > systems and it just doesn't work very well at all. Once I upgrade the > memory though, it runs quite well. > > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 09:58, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 08:50:34AM -0700, Rob Adams wrote: > > > Really we can't run GNOME 2 on a pentium 90 with 32 MB anyway. > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- --- Bob Smith <bob thestuff net> --- ++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++ ..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>.
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