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| May 8, 2021 at 11:02 | history | edited | Austin Hemmelgarn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 5, 2021 at 20:22 | comment | added | Stack Exchange Supports Israel | The flip side of the 32MB comment is: if you can find something you want to do, and your thing needs less than 4GB of RAM, there should be a way to run it! | |
| May 5, 2021 at 13:35 | comment | added | pts | I was running Linux 2.4 on a PC with 8 MB of RAM. I wrote some text in a text editor in LaTeX format, I used latex + dvips to compile it, and gv (Ghostview) to preview it before printing. gv was quite slow (xdvi was much faster). Everything became much faster after upgrading to 16 MB of RAM. In the meantime the school server running Linux (in a school with >1000 students) had 64 MB of RAM. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 17:37 | comment | added | Sandeep Roy | @Hermann I Agree. Best thing would be to go for a newer one. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 17:21 | comment | added | Hermann | I appreciate @SandeepRoy effort for saving money and resources. I am occasionally using a laptop with similar specs (old CPU, 4 GB RAM, but SSD) for development purposes (C++ and Java using eclipse, some MySQL). Very doable with xubuntu in default settings. But Spring Tool Suite, NPM, Atom, and the Docker overhead… not going to happen in any manner I can deem comfortable. Every single one of these applications is a memory-hog alone and cannot possibly work simultaneously with 4 GB of RAM. :( | |
| May 4, 2021 at 17:19 | comment | added | Sandeep Roy | @J... Agreed, Core 2 duo is just too old for today's standard. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 17:18 | comment | added | Sandeep Roy | @Chris H I tried that earlier, I did make a difference on application load time, but again same sloppy performance when you try to work on them. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 17:16 | comment | added | Sandeep Roy | @AustinHemmelgarn Thanks for the guidance and suggestions. The best is think for this machine is, to keep it for pdf reading. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 17:09 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | @J... I’m not arguing about their particular workload, but in general, hence my comment about such systems being useful only for single-purpose embedded systems. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 15:42 | comment | added | J... |
Linux will run fine on a system with only 32MB of RAM Uh, just no - not if OP needs "...heavy multitasking like MySQL, Spring Tool Suite, NPM, Atom, Postman, Docker and Firefox. Not to forget PDF reader, Spreadsheet etc." Linux can run on a postage stamp if you like, but no amount of fanboy enthusiasm can conjure a modern workstation out of a 30 year-old mess of transistors.
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| May 4, 2021 at 8:57 | comment | added | Chris H | +1 for Linux with a lightweight window manager. They make a big difference on ancient machines (I set one up for my daughter not long ago). If you've got dual drives that gives you some options: running swap on a separate (fast) volume to everything else can help too, but OTOH you may want your file access to be off the SSD if that's a limit | |
| May 4, 2021 at 2:12 | history | answered | Austin Hemmelgarn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |