Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 17:54 UTC
David Williams over at iTWire has done a comparison of Windows vs Linux. It is performed by doing functionally identical tasks in both the OSes. This comparison is not a fair one by any measure. The laptops running the Windows and Linux were different in the hardware config and the software used for the tests were comparable but clearly different (MS Office vs OpenOffice; IE vs Firefox 3).
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2007-08-11
whoa, my system has only 512MB RAM and has had for the last 4-5 years.
I've run a few different flavours of linux, but mostly just opensuse (currently 11.0). I have used KDE up until recently and now use GNOME a lot.
memory usage on boot is around 100MB or less. The most i've seen it use is around 350MB and thats when i'm busy working on something. The swap has never been more than say 10MB and is not used at all 99% of the time.
Still, RAM is so cheap nowadays that as long as I have enough, I couldnt' care less how much of it the OS uses.
What gripes me is when windows uses swap BEFORE i'm anywhere near running out of available RAM?! go figure!