Assembly language programming in unix environment

[Andrew Farris]

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 13:17 -0500, Kipton Moravec wrote:
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> An example is the difference between Ubuntu and Xubuntu. Xubuntu was
> supposed to be a lighter weight version of Ubuntu, for older machines.
> It used X windows instead of Gnome. Turns out Xubuntu takes more RAM
> than Ubuntu. 

I'd like to know where you got this info/where you saw this, because
I've had the exact opposite experience.

I just recently was given, as a 'thank you' for some gratis pc repair,
an old-ish apple ibook.  This thing has a puny PPC-processor, and only
256mb RAM. I tried ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04 PPC-LiveCDs on it, and neither
one could stand up for very long under the Live environment... it took
forever to load, and things started disappearing off the desktop when
running small apps (just file browser and terminal), until the whole
thing just locked up. 

However, fetching/popping-in a copy of xubuntu 9.04 was a vastly
differnet experience. Loading xubuntu resulted in a mildly faster 'Live'
load time, and a fully usable desktop environment, even after about an
hour of downloading/running some test programs (i was trying to get a
usable temperature sensor going) and using the file manager, terminal,
and web browser extensively. It was all surprisingly snappy, despite the
low RAM, and live environment.

Just my experience to share.

-- 
Andrew
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