Subj : LINUX the Cross Roads
To   : Spaceman Spiff
From : Mrproper
Date : Fri Jan 07 2005 09:28 am

  Re: LINUX the Cross Roads
  By: Spaceman Spiff to All on Wed Jan 05 2005 08:08 pm

 > So far, pretty cool. I need to figure out a few things, but I managed to be
 > able to surf the web, downloaded FireFox for Linux, works good....I think I
 > need to pick up a bigger drive, the machine seems a little slow, everytime I
 > to run an application, I wait and the drive runs and runs.
 > 
 > I am not sure if it is the slowness of the machine or the fact that there is
 > such little free space on the Hard drive that machine is slowing because it 
 > doing a virtual memory thing on the hard drive?  Does Linux use a virtual
 > memory thing like Windows and the MAC OS?
 > 
 > Anyway...I guess I have a lot to learn, but it looks pretty cool and there a
 > lots of resources.


Yeah... It's usually best to have a linux swap partition the same size or a
little larger the the size of the ram in your system.



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