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jonasforssell@yahoo.se - 16 Sep 2005 17:49 GMT

Hi,

I'm concidering buying a used laptop with 128 MB ram and 10 GB disk.
I will put Linux on it and run Eclipse for Java development.
Speed is not primary although I'd like to avoid constant swapping.

Are the specs too feeble or is there a chance this will work?

/Jonas

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Bryan E. Boone - 16 Sep 2005 21:57 GMT

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You can always use a LiveCD (like Slax) to check it out.
Slax allows you to build a "custom" distribution that include
Elispe/Java modules, which are trivial to create.
-Bryan

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James Korman - 17 Sep 2005 01:57 GMT

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Your hard drive is probably ok, but unless your projects are small
I think 128MB ram may get a little tight.

(Currently using Eclipse v3.1)

Jim

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Roedy Green - 17 Sep 2005 08:02 GMT

On 16 Sep 2005 09:49:43 -0700, jonasforssell@yahoo.se wrote or quoted

>I'm concidering buying a used laptop with 128 MB ram and 10 GB disk.
>I will put Linux on it and run Eclipse for Java development.
>Speed is not primary although I'd like to avoid constant swapping.

I think you need a minimum of 512MB to keep eclipse happy.

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EricF - 18 Sep 2005 05:55 GMT

>On 16 Sep 2005 09:49:43 -0700, jonasforssell@yahoo.se wrote or quoted
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>I think you need a minimum of 512MB to keep eclipse happy.

He's probably right though if the projects are small, 256 might work.

I'm running win2k. I just looked at task manager - 289484k mem used

I opened Eclipse 3.1 - 363644k mem used. And that's with no projects loaded.
With 128 mb there will be a lot of swapping.

Eric

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jonasforssell@yahoo.se - 18 Sep 2005 06:13 GMT

Ok,

Is there an alternative environment for Java development which includes
a debugger? Something with low resources.

I'd really like an IDE over an editor + separate tools.

/Jonas

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IchBin - 18 Sep 2005 08:14 GMT

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I know of two, JGRASP http://www.jgrasp.org and BlueJ http://www.bluej.org

I have them running under windows but they do have installs for Linux.

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EricF - 19 Sep 2005 05:49 GMT

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The "good" Java IDEs I've seen (Netbeans, Intellij, JBuilder, and Eclipse) are
huge resource hogs.IMO power tools need memory.

Eric

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"Knut G. Sætre" - 22 Sep 2005 11:18 GMT

jonasforssell@yahoo.se skrev:

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> Are the specs too feeble or is there a chance this will work?

Had a alptop like that with suse 9.1, Impossible to use with eclipse
3.0. All too slow.

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jonasforssell@yahoo.se - 23 Sep 2005 13:16 GMT

Excellent feedback!

Thank you all. I'll go for a laptop with min 512 MB memory.

/Jonas

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