Linux, what are our objectives?

[Dan Ritter]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:58:16AM -0500, Don Levey wrote:
> On the other hand, I *do* iconify, and I don't tend to keep open
> anything that I don't need in the near future.  But then, I'm dealing
> with a slower machine at the moment, and both my wife and I are running
> simultaneous sessions and we switch back and forth (and will continue to
> do so until we can afford to fix her laptop).  Performance is negatively
> impacted if I keep a lot of things open.

Lots of RAM will (mostly) fix that. And RAM is relatively cheap;
if you can use DDR2-533, for example, 4GB can cost $40 or so.

-dsr-

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