Re:The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 5
by swiley on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:32AM
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Sure you can run a Linux based OS in 64-128MB of ram.
The problem is that a lot of apps start misbehaving. Firefox and Libreoffice come to mind. Firefox is really impossible to replace too (IMO) I haven’t been able to log in to gmail from a gtk WebKit browser in years and medium doesn’t even work in them (it of course works in elinks.) You can run Firefox in <1GB of ram but it won’t be nice and it won’t run long.
I absolutely disagree with you about the GPU. As long as you’re not running gnome software graphics are plenty fast.
The problem is that a lot of apps start misbehaving. Firefox and Libreoffice come to mind. Firefox is really impossible to replace too (IMO) I haven’t been able to log in to gmail from a gtk WebKit browser in years and medium doesn’t even work in them (it of course works in elinks.) You can run Firefox in <1GB of ram but it won’t be nice and it won’t run long.
I absolutely disagree with you about the GPU. As long as you’re not running gnome software graphics are plenty fast.