bootparam mem=128M

Par Benoît Dejean le samedi, 24 novembre 2007, 22:21 - GNOME - Lien permanent

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Emmanuel is right. A lot of people in the world, our users, have computers with 128MiB. I can't believe it's possible to run GNOME with that few memory. At least you have to kill a couple of applets and disable all python plugins.
So on 12/8 i will boot my laptop with boot=128M for one day, to see what it feels like. If you want to follow me...

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1. Le dimanche, 25 novembre 2007, 18:10 par Philip

I've got Fedora 8 running on my old Amilo M laptop with 128MiB of RAM. I've removed the services I don't need as well as quite a few other processes, but I haven't had to be excessive in my pruning, and it does run OK (although definitely not brilliantly).

2. Le dimanche, 25 novembre 2007, 18:55 par Havoc

Finishing just a short list of stuff might have a big impact: dconf/gsettings, gvfs, and nicer dbus-glib bindings including single instance app support. Those things are the last barriers to dropping big piles of old library code, and the people working on them could probably use help testing (and porting apps).

3. Le dimanche, 25 novembre 2007, 20:27 par AdamW

I ran GNOME on a P2/450 with 128MB of RAM full time from 2.4 to 2.12. It was slow, but generally worked fine.

4. Le dimanche, 25 novembre 2007, 21:21 par mike

Remind us on the 7th please

(and write a guide for newbies :D)

most import: disable your gnome-panels before logging in ^^

5. Le dimanche, 25 novembre 2007, 22:14 par Scott

My wife runs GNOME on a laptop with 128MB of RAM---she usually is running firefox and abiword on top of that!

6. Le lundi, 26 novembre 2007, 09:09 par Benoît DEJEAN

I know that GNOME 2.6 would run almost fine with 128MiB. But that was years ago, i'm talking about 2.20.

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bootparam mem=128M

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