On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:23:19 -0400, Jim Henderson wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:41:39 -0400, Francois Labreque wrote:
> 
>> You'd need at least 8MB to start X11 with a lightweight window manager
>> without having it trip over itself in the process.
> 
> That's not true - I know plenty of people who use 1-2 GB systems with
> FVWM or XFCE with no problems at all.
> 
> Heck, this desktop I'm using has only 6 GB of memory, and it runs GNOME3
> flawlessly.

m-/

To self:  "8MB is not 8GB.  8MB is not 8GB"

Sorry, obviously I misread and thought you said 8 GB as a minimum 
requirement. ;)

Jim

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