>I installed Fedora Core on my PC at home and it is using almost all of>.the Ram that my PC >has (using about 240mb of 256mb). I have tried >selecting all packages and I have also tried doing the default Desktop >install but both end up taking almost all of my ram when the PC is doing >nothing. I have installed other Linux distros and they only took around >96MB when running KDE idle. =20 >=20 >Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can free up some RAM? >=20 I would examine what's running with redhat-config-services and see what I could turn off. You likely are running a variety of daemons by default that you don't use. For example, if you have an ACPI machine, you do not need apmd. You don't need sendmail unless you run a mail server. There are several others that slip my mind now that you may be able to do without. The GUI tool gives a short explanation of the services so you can understand what they do. Erik
