I daresay most 21st century micros have 4 GB or less RAM.
Bart
On 6/12/2013 4:27 PM, dvdpst wrote:
> Not all Linux can go on older machines. If you are looking for an Linux to
> put on an pre 90s machine. Try looking at Puppy Linux. It can run on an
> machine with 128 mb or less. There are others too. I have Puppy running on
> an 186 with 128 mb ram.
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> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Bart Lidofsky <bart@moosewise.com> wrote:
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>> On 6/12/2013 1:46 AM, loyal_barber wrote:
>>> A note however: If you have 4 GB or less of memory
>>> you will want to create 1 to several swap partitions of approximately
>>> 2 GB each up to 1.5 times your amount of RAM. For example, if you
>>> had 4 GB RAM, you would have 5 total partitions:
>>> 1. Win7
>>> 2. Swap 2GB
>>> 3. Swap 2GB
>>> 4. Swap 2GB
>>> 5. Linux root (/) partition of the size of your free space - 6 GB.
>>>
>> One advantage that I have read about Linux is that it is much
>> easier on resources than Windows; it can be used to bring new life to
>> older machines. Therefore, I am curious as to why 4 GB of RAM is
>> insufficient to run Linux properly, and that several dedicated
>> partitions for swap areas are required. Can't Linux just use a file on
>> disk for swapping of necessary?
>>
>> Bart
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