Subj : Re: Who blocks? To : comp.os.linux From : pascaldamian Date : Tue Jul 27 2004 01:22 pm nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu (nessuno) wrote in message news:... > pascaldamian@icqmail.com (Pascal Damian) wrote in message news:<6bd4a4d3.0407220842.6235d54b@posting.google.com>... > Dear Pascal, > > Redhat 7.3 plus the Gnome that came with it weren't as demanding of > computer resources as current versions. Current versions of Fedora > Core + Gnome require at least 256MB of RAM. How much RAM do you have > now? Your freeze-ups could be caused by insufficient RAM. I have 768MB. I'm quite sure RAM isn't the problem, but IDE blocking (though I'm not technically knowledgeable enough to know exactly which/what). Anyway, I think I'll try out kernel 2.6 (will be migrating to Debian sid). -- Pascal .