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How to install Linux on an eMac (Linux.com)
Linux.com looks at
installing Linux on an eMac. "The eMac is a fine machine, but it has
always been a little slow, due primarily to the fact that it has only 128MB
of RAM. That shortage of RAM kept me from upgrading to a later version of
OS X several months ago: the latest version would install only on machines
with 256MB. I didn't want to give Jack a machine that he would immediately
need to spend several hundred dollars on in order to bring its operating
system up to snuff, so I decided to see if I could install Linux on
it."
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How to install Linux on an eMac (Linux.com) Posted Nov 1, 2006 4:10 UTC (Wed) by horen (subscriber, #2514) [Link] I just spent the last school year working as a MacOSX sysadmin, after spending the previous 17 as a Unix and Linux sysadmin. An eMac might only have come with 128MB of RAM (single module), but could be upraged via 3rd-party RAM to 1GB RAM, for little money.
The original eMac came with a 700- or 800MHz PPC cpu; the newer model comes with a 1.25MHz or 1.42MHz PPC cpu.
A 700MHz PPC eMac, with 1GB RAM, is fast and works like a champ with MacOSX/10.4 (Tiger). I'm sure it'll run even better with Linux installed. Tell Jack to cough-up some cash and buy two 512MB memory modules -- he won't regret the investment.
How to install Linux on an eMac (Linux.com) Posted Nov 1, 2006 9:36 UTC (Wed) by dvrabel (subscriber, #9500) [Link] Given that I seen GNOME's clock-applet using in excess of 200 MB of RAM I'm not sure you really want to use GNOME on a 128 MB machine.
How to install Linux on an eMac (Linux.com) Posted Nov 2, 2006 0:31 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Well Gnome can run in 128 megs of ram and be usable. It'll just be kinda slow at times.
And your clock isn't using 200 megs of ram, even though it may show up that way in top or gnome-system-monitor. To get a better look at how much ram it's realy is taking to run clock you need to go into gnome-system-monitor and add some more columns.. Namely 'shared' and 'rss' columns.
The system normally claims that it's running 21megs of RAM, but realy it's using 7.4 megs of shared libraries and 6.1 megs of unique memory. So if I ran it buy itself it would be using 14.5megs of real ram, but in Gnome environment having it is only using up a additional 6 megs.
Now this is still certainly very bloated, it's a freaking clock, but it's not anywere close to 200 megs. Not unless your using some gdesklets horror with a memory leak or something like that.
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