Comments on: No joke: A full Gnome desktop on 105Mb

By: Three middleweights « Motho ke motho ka botho

Three middleweights « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:43:37 +0000

[...] probably should have though. For as much oohing and aahing as I am guilty of, when I talk about Linux Mint Debian, it’s important to remember that LMDE [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:57:12 +0000

Oh no, please, let’s not start that debate again. …

By: jdt

jdt — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:51:48 +0000

k mandla is a she not a he…………LOL

By: Stevo Vukovic

Stevo Vukovic — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 11:42:15 +0000

Just run> free -l -m
This will gave you a real picture.

By: CountDuckula

CountDuckula — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:58:59 +0000

So lets compare apples with pears because thats what you seem to have done. If you run any distro as a live CD your memory usage will be more than if you use it as installed distro.

Also remember that even when you install a Linux distro in the same way as K.Mandla has done in his posts, you may end up with a better or worse result depending on the machine you put it on. Older machines may have less processes going and therefore maybe lighter on RAM use.

As for Linux Mint, my experiences with it on VirtualBox have been mixed – occasionally some installs run at 100% CPU utilization whilst idle, perhaps a bug with Mint or VirtualBox?

The best way to install is always on a real PC

I posted (at the top of this page as Gazza) that my Linux Mint 9 install booted at 80MB which isn’t that bad. After some tweaking this now boots at 65MB – let’s not forget that this is ready for serious use, and easy for a Windoze user to use. I could trim more off the resource usage by removing Network Manager and other “ease of use tools”, replacing them with command line equivalents.

By: Stanislaus Brown

Stanislaus Brown — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:24:47 +0000

I’m questioning your figures. You say that 105MB of RAM is used. I set up a VM on VirtualBox and ran Mint Debian on it. Granted, I did not install but just ran off the iso image. I saw 136MB used in the system monitor applet. But when I ran top from the CLI, the memory used was way above that, 507624KB. It seems that the system monitor applet is being very optimistic. Top seems to give a truer picture of memory usage.

By: ScannerDarkly

ScannerDarkly — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:27:42 +0000

And then there are people that say a battery can’t be charged when it already is, so it doesn’t have any downsides.

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:44:47 +0000

If so, I sure hope those batteries are removed — constantly charging charged batteries isn’t exactly good for them.

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By: ScannerDarkly

ScannerDarkly — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:44:19 +0000

Never use your laptops portably then K, just plugged into the mains? I’m guessing you don’t use batteries at all?