We've drifted into the Semantics Zone, I'm afraid ...8-bit wrote:It boots slow, but comes up with the desktop and apps available and memory left too according to Free.
So I figure that a true memory needed test is having enough memory to hold the kernel and xwindow manager. The applications can be loaded as needed after that!
So you just might have to rethink your minimum memory requirements for
each version.
Although 214R with a full HD install has loaded and runs on that Compaq, it's going "run" like a sloth. You'll note that there's 1316 free conventional memory and 2152 used of swap memory - which indicates that between the kernel, Xorg and the desktop, you're already into swap. HD thrashing is just moments away.
To say Puppy 214R will load and run on a 133MHz/32M box isn't technically false, but I fear many newcomers are arriving with preconceived notions of "fast" and "speed," which will not be the case with that box.
So it's not a case of HairyWill needing to rethink minimum memory requirements for each version, but is a case of the community needing to more clearly define the terminology used to describe, and in some cases advertise Puppy.
Puppy is offered "as is" with no guarantees written or implied, however the stigma of false or deceptive advertising, however innocent, can still have a detrimental affect on the distro.