New to Linux

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Tue Mar 24 20:37:28 UTC 2009


Mario Andes wrote:
> Hi Samir,
> 
> as you have recognized, linux or unix systems in general let you be freetoi decide
> what you need, get what you need.
> 
> With a CPU like yours almost everything is possible ;-)
> You could put more memory in your PC and (K)Ubuntu will run better than now.
> But linux systems as they are like unix systems (files are handled differently) 
> don't need much memory to work.

Exactly how do you think a UNIX-style filesystem allow you to use
significantly less memory for applications?

Matt Flaschen




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