Two things missing from Ubuntu - Backup and Firewall - can we havethem in Horay

[david]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 19:19, machiner wrote:
> ok -- first:
> 
> 2GB of RAM!!?!??!?!?!  Holy computing needs, batman!
> 
> ...and #2:
> 
> Why do you need a swap  with 2gb or ram?
> 
> 
> -- 
> machiner

Swap is for system problems where one would swap out the contents of the
physical memory to the swap file. This is why the more RAM present the
bigger the swap file when it's done by the installer, because it will
always pick a size that is slightly bigger than the system RAM.

David