[LBo] Xubuntu 7.04

[Sam Morgan]

Troy wrote:

> Another point of interest is when running the free command, 344224 of 417488
> of the memory is used. My guess is Xubuntu 7.04 is a bit heavy for this old
> machine.  Would this be right?
> 
if you had a gig of memory, linux would be using most of it.
Linux, (unlike windows) is designed to run using most of the available memory
since memory is faster than hard drives (swap)
it uses the more efficient medium.

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