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nighthawk
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 Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: Which one? |
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| johneva wrote: |
Thats great but what is KDE?
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migor explained it.
Unlike windows linux has separate graphic interface. That is a good thing because you can have more than one.
There is one more thing - window menager (I'm not so sure about the name)
They are simmilar to desktop environments but they are much simpler and consume less memory. The most famous is XFCE (There is Xububtu - ubuntu ditribution with XFCE). I had Slackware installed with several desktop environments and window menagers, when I was running XFCE the whole system needed only 65MB of memory.
btw if you need linux that doesn't consume a lot of memory you can download Austrumi or DSL. They are both live distributions which means that you can run them without installing ( from CD or USB). Both of them are smaller than 50 MB.
I use Austrumi because it is a bit faster - It caches CD into RAM, and uses only about 25MB of RAM. What ever you do with it, amount of memory used will not go over 150 MB. At least I could make it go over 150. It has many interesting programs. The one I use the most is Bluefish - it is program for web development. |
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johneva
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:39 am Post subject: Re: Which one? |
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| Na RAM is not an issue for me anyways I have 2 Gig of DDR2 high performance OCZ Gold. |
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nighthawk
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: Which one? |
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2 GB - I can only dream about it. You can use any OS you like.
btw have you configured windows (winblows) to use only RAM (not to use pagefile)? |
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johneva
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:18 am Post subject: Re: Which one? |
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Yeah I have cheers matey.  |
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