Is 32M of RAM enough?

[Scott Smith]

Blackbox is a great window manager that uses little memory.

Scott

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>On Monday 14 July 2003 09:55 pm, David Mohr wrote:
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>>Has anyone been successful loading a full version of SuSE 8.1 Professional
>>on 32M of RAM?  I’m asking because I have an old laptop and, if at all
>>possible, do not want to purchase more RAM.  I know the minimum requirement
>>is 64M, but I figured I would ask just in case.  If it possible, please
>>tell me what modification, if any, you made to accommodate the lack of RAM.
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>I've done it with Mandrake, which is a known RAM hog.
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>Using text install went far better than GUI.   This appears common to the 
>current (9.x) RPM based installers, and would probably apply to SuSE as well.
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>You'll be better off with a simpler window manager than enlightenment/KDE or 
>Gnome.
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>Don't even consider trying to multitask, switching between programs while you 
>wait for the other one to load.  Yours will be a single focus machine.
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