Linux, what are our objectives?

[lug-TwWeWiF2EGRi+ztankeudA at public.gmane.org (Don Levey)]

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Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:58:16AM -0500, Don Levey wrote:
>> On the other hand, I *do* iconify, and I don't tend to keep open
>> anything that I don't need in the near future.  But then, I'm dealing
>> with a slower machine at the moment, and both my wife and I are running
>> simultaneous sessions and we switch back and forth (and will continue to
>> do so until we can afford to fix her laptop).  Performance is negatively
>> impacted if I keep a lot of things open.
> 
> Lots of RAM will (mostly) fix that. And RAM is relatively cheap;
> if you can use DDR2-533, for example, 4GB can cost $40 or so.
> 

If we were just talking about $40 I *might* be able to justify that
(things are a bit tight right now).  But as far as I can tell this
machine is running DDR-333, and the cost is about double.  The eventual
goal is to just upgrade the machine itself, as soon as more money
becomes available.

 -Don

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