[CentOS] 6.1 .iso size?

[Lamar Owen]

On Monday, December 05, 2011 06:02:27 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
>> It's only when doing multiple things, or doing multithreaded things, that the
>> Core2Duo pulls away.

> OK, but who just runs a single process?  

For the purposes of usability, effectively anyone who spends the day in Firefox.  And there are a lot of people for whom that is the case.  

> And 2GB RAM is kind of
> minimal - I like lots of disk buffer.  

What you like is irrelevant to the usefulness of 2GB of RAM to other people.

> If you don't have things in
> cache, your 'responsiveness in normal use' is going to be dominated by
> disk waits.

None of which negates the gist of the message, that a 2.0GHz Pentium M (and even a slower one) is still a usable machine. Nothing more; nothing less.