[plug] linux on an imac

[Bernd Felsche]

Mike Holland <myk.list at westnet.com.au> writes:
>Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:

>> Many reasons. You've outlined the problem -- MacOS costs money. 

>Only if you want it to. While 10.4 is expensive, you can get 10.3 second 
>hand cheaply.

>>  256MB of RAM is truckloads for Linux.

>Not with Gnome. I can't believe how much RAM Gnome sucks. The weather 
>applet uses more memory than than a linux 1.x kernel ! 20MB resident for 
>Nautilus. Is KDE any better? The apple desktop is slim in comparison.

Is that all? The (Novell) zen updater under SUSE Linux 10.1 gobbles
a gigabyte of RAM/VM when it's updating. That's not fun on a
computer with only 256MB!

To be fair, SUSE developers have apologised and suggested
alternative methods and workarounds that are a little more
efficient.

Because the package management is so awful with that 10.1 perversion,
fou4s doesn't always work. But it is a lot quicker most of the time.
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