On 24/03/2013 12:41 AM, Francois Labreque wrote:
> Le 2013-03-21 18:03, Orchid Win7 v1 a écrit :
>> If you run Debian (which has no special optimisations for such
>> hardware), you find that it crawls along alarmingly slowly. I mean, slow
>> to the point that you can't tell if the OS is actually functioning or
>> not. Twenty minutes for GNOME to start!
>
> What else did you expect from loading X11 with a heavy window manager on
> top of it on a system that only has 2 MB of ram?
>
> You'd need at least 8MB to start X11 with a lightweight window manager
> without having it trip over itself in the process.

Why? What does it need so much RAM for?

Also, I believe (not 100% sure) I had already added more RAM at this 
point. I think I had either 6MB or 10MB at the time.

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