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  • From: t.maiden AT att.net
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] BasicLinux 2.1 or 3.2 ISO files
  • Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:40:28 +0000

I have run DSL with 64 meg but normally with 128 meg. The only application I
know of that uses all the memory reserved (and the virtual processor) is
Firefox.

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, James Miller wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> >
> >> IIRC DSL needs a minumum of 64mb (or is it 128mb?).
> >
> > Last I checked they were claiming 32mb. Based on my experience with it
> > though, it would probably be too slow to be tolerable with only 32. A
> > swap partition might make it more useable at that amount of RAM.
> >
> > James
>
> We have used it okay with 32MB, but it was not happy with 24MB. Our
> laptop computers have 16MB and 24MB. Please remind me how to go to CLI
> instead of X when you boot, other than telling it to use VESAFB when you
> don't have that. That should save some RAM. What does DSL do with all
> that RAM?
>
> Sindi
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