[Tfug] Small Linux Distributions (was Re: Religious crap)

[Michael Schultheiss]

Ammon Lauritzen wrote:
> On lower-end machines, the ram makes an enormous difference when it
> comes to being able to live with an X setup because if you get too low
> on the memory tree, you start swapping out... which hoses older boxen.

Back in 1998, I used GNOME on a P75.  I don't remember how much RAM it
had, but my P200 only had 32MB so I don't imagine the P75 had much at
all.  Seems like everything has gotten more resource intensive.