Thanks for the clarification. It is a great news for userw with old machine. I really do not want that Fedora becomes another window Vista. Thanks Frank On 6/1/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 01/06/07, Andreas Bernauer wrote: > frank wang wrote on Thu, May 31 2007 at 22:14 (-0700): > > Hi, > > > > I tried to run live CD of fedora 7. In the boot up menu, one item is > > run from RAM. It requires 1GB+ memory. I wondered why fedora 7 takes > > so much memory. Recently, I am looking for a linux that requires less > > memory. Supprisingly, Puppy2 and Damn Small Linux can run linux from > > RAM with 128 MB and 48 MB ram. > > As someone else already mentioned on this list, fedora does not "require" > that much RAM, but uses the RAM that is available to do the best out of > it, eg. use it as a disk cache (which, btw, is a good thing to do > when you use fedora from CD). > > Isn't it better to use all the available RAM to enhance your user experience > instead of just letting it lying around unused? > > You can check yourself by using the 'free' command and checking the 'cached' > column. Comparing the system requirements of the Live (!) CDs with an installed version of Fedora 7 is like comparing apples with oranges. It is just the Live-CD "run from RAM" feature that comes with such enormous memory requirements. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
