Re: [SLUG] Fire Fox 1.5

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Fri Dec 02 2005 - 13:24:05 EST


On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:13:28AM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote:

>
> > I'm running with 512MB of RAM. I didn't realize that may not be enough.
> > That's good to know though. I'll need to check it out. I'm running
> 1.0.7 as
> > well, and I get the same crashing.
>
> 512M should be ample. I can run it successfully on as little as 128M
> when running
> the Fluxbox window manager. I've also noticed similar behaviour on a
> 1G machine
> that's otherwise dormant.

This is another good point. Things like KDE and GNOME just _suck_
memory. If you want to trim your usage, try Blackbox, Fluxbox, XFCE,
etc. Not as pretty, but slimmer.

Paul
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