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Originally Posted by groar
Current versions of Linux distributions, noticeably with graphical programs such as firefox (with tens of tabs, flash...), open office, acrobat reader... and a full graphical interface (kde, gnome...) will need at least 1GB of RAM and more than a couple of Ghz.
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Not necessarily. I'm posting this on a 500mhz slot 1 pentium III with 256mb of ram. Firefox has 15 tabs open and uses ~40% of memory. X is using another 10% or so, fbpanel, openbox, and mpd use another 15%, and most pdfs use ~10-20% in evince. One big problem was that if I did run out of memory, through some flash bug or evince opening a horribly rendered pdf, oomkiller would chug for minutes before finally killing something, so linking xkill to a hot key really helped keep the system from grinding to a halt if I ran out of ram (I generally don't activate swap). Now my laptop with 128mb of ram, that's something where firefox can't be used well, but dillo works great for most stuff.