New to Linux

[Jonas Norlander]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> 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?
>

I'm not sure what he mean but i think that with all shared libraries
useded in a Linux system, the same amount of application in Windows
will take more space on disk and RAM then the Linux system.

/ Jonas