Political Blather

[Luke-Jr]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 03:51, you wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 12:08, David Nicol wrote:
> > > Hmm.  network drivers plus X plus lwm and instead of giving any kind
> > > of log-in the system just starts firefox?
> >
> > Ugh, what happened to the LOW-END requirement? Firefox eats memory and
> > CPU.
>
> Experiment for this evening:
> Download current DSL 3.2 ISO and burn to a CD.  Boot my Linux
> workstation with it.  It's a P4 HT 2.8Ghz machine with 512MB RAM.  Way
> overkill for DSL.  It boots fairly quickly on the 2.4.26 kernel from
> the CD, the longest part was waiting for USB probing.  I bumped the
> default choice of 1024x768 to 1280x1024 to fit my display, and now I'm
> browsing with Firefox 1.0.6.  So far I have yet to break 64MB of RAM
> in use, and no swap use.  I may try adding on a more updated FF module
> and seeing how RAM useage changes.  So far, other than CPU speed and
> screen size capability, this should be easy to run on my old P2 300
> laptop, with just 128MB RAM.  I'd have a lot of head room for bigger
> apps.  Dillo starts at boot up, and that was around 30-ish MB of RAM
> use.

Yeah, you've got a lot of RAM in your "low end" box. Over 32 MB for mere 
browsing is really overkill.