seaken64
Here’s what I get on two Pentium 4 class machines, one a Single Thread w/ 2GB or RAM, the other a Two Thread “HyperThread” with 3/GB of RAM.
Initial ram used after boot, with only Terminal running HTOP.
P4 2.8 Ghz 2GB RAM 32-bit
AMD RV280 Dedicated Graphics Card
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MX21-XFCE – 361M
MX21-XFCE w/ LXDE Session – 246M
MX21-Fluxbox – 244M
antiX-21 SysV Full w/ IceWM – 80M
antiX-21 SysV Full w/ Fluxbox – 81M
antiX-21 SysV Full w/ JWM – 79M
P4HT 3.2 Ghz 3GB RAM 32-bit
Intel integrated graphics
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MX21-XFCE – 456M
MX21-XFCE w/ Fluxbox Session – 313M
MX21-XFCE w/ LXDE Session – 300M
MX21-XFCE w/ IceWM Session – 186M
antiX-21 Runit Base w/ IceWM – 83M
antiX-21 Runit Base w/ Fluxbox – 88M
antiX-21 Runit Base w/ JWM – 87M
If you only have 512MB of RAM you will struggle to use the machine as a “daily driver”, unless you only use text based applications. My experience trying to make use of Google Workspace on Firefox on these machines tells me that a machne like this is not suitable.
But again, we said “it depends”. What are you trying to do? What kind of browsing do you want to do?
I have been logging some tests with MX and antiX lately and that is my lists above include MX installs. But even with antiX, which weighs in pretty low on initial boot, at about 80M, when I try to open more than three tabs in Firefox on Google Workspace, on my machines with 512M or 1GB of RAM, the machine runs out of RAM. And the CPU is hung up. It took at least 2GB to be “usable”. I had a full report here a few weeks ago (see above link).
Seaken64
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