Tidying up after Linux 16773

It's pretty clever how you subconsciously snuck that "OS thing" in there.... nice touch. But I've read enough of your posts and you are obviously intelligent enough to know that most apps are going to sit there and wait for user input. Unless you're running apps that are hammering away at the CPU trying to crack MD5 encryption or attempting to generate large prime numbers the app is most likely doing absolutely nothing.

So both of us can start a word processor, an editor, a web-brower, mail-client, etc and we both know it's basically going to do a whole lot of nothing until we switch to it and actually use it for something. In reality these apps will simply get paged out to disk and the physical memory will get used by whatever app we are running at the time. Each app will require a small footprint in resident memory but this is only going to be a few Kbytes per app.

But hmmmm, now I'm wondering what you said. There's something in the back of my mind. Something about an OS that runs multiple apps really well. It's sinking in. It's sinking in. I have an urge to install a distro. I must install a distro. Something is taking over me but I don't know what.

Later!

- LQ