On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 23:01 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > > Yes, next time do a clean install! Your system has too little memory > > installed. You need at least 256 MB, preferably more. > > Which is a ridiculous state of affairs IMHO. What if the user only wants a > light desktop system, or a headless server. For these things 128M should be > fine. Not exactly nippy but would run OK. > > As things stand at the moment, the standard anaconda installer requires as > much memory as a full gnome/kde desktop. Is it just me me thinks this is just > a tad silly. > > There are many desktops out there that run fine with 128M, XFCe or fvwm for > instance. XFCE is even part of extras. So an installer that requires more ram > that the system it is installing.... go figure. > > Chris > It is silly but that is the way it is. It reminds me that I just saw "Showstoppers", the book about the development of WinNT. An argument arose between Bill Gates and David Carver (the developer). Gates said it should run in 1M of ram ; Carver held out for 8M. Now we have Vista that takes 1G. That's progress? -- ======================================================================= Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
