Fixes was 4: the good, the bad and the broken

[Draciron Smith]

Bah I'm only running on 1 gig of ram right now, got about the same in
an older machine but 1 gig is plenty for Linux. I keep a gig of swap
as well and use it quite heavily when I have all my stuff loaded up
but it's not been slow or a problem in years. One of my machines is 7
yrs old and still runs modern Linux distros just fine. Another reason
I love Linux. The only time I retire a machine is because the hardware
has failed. At worst I can make a print or data server out of it which
is what I do with a few machines that are several years old and only
have a half gig of ram or less. Though some distros won't install with
less than half a gig, not a big deal I run them headless and air gap
them from the net so they continue to serve a useful purpose until
they finally give out. Other OS's you get a few years out of a machine
then it's too obsolete to use any more. I usually get 5 or 6 years out
of a machine I build. Then those that are still running after that get
used for secondary computers. Allow me to play with clustering, keep
ancient dot matrix printers in use, things like that.



On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:
> On 04/29/2010 07:10 PM, Duncan wrote:
>> [...] there's no reason why Linux can't stabily handle qt3/kde3,
>> qt4/kde4, gtk1, gtk2/ gnome2, and openoffice apps, all at the same
>> time, given a reasonable amount of memory and swap.  Loading all
>> those toolkits WILL take additional memory, much of which can be
>> swapped out over an uptime of weeks, but there's no reason it can't
>> be done and be stable doing it.
>
> The memory footprint of loading all those different libraries is rather
> minimal.  We're talking about 100MB maximum.  It's not even worth
> thinking about it these days.  It's definitely not enough to make
> swapping kick-in; even the cheapest, ugliest, most low-end desktop
> machines and laptops/netbooks you can now buy have at least two orders
> of magnitude more RAM than that.  At least *I* never saw a machine with
> less than 2GB RAM for sale since years now.
>
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