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| From | Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.setup |
| Subject | Re: Linux on a small memory PC |
| Date | 2022-07-07 11:12 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87mtdlt0qw.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> (permalink) |
| References | <ta6c1l$bneq$1@dont-email.me> <ta6h8u$16vfo$1@solani.org> <ta6lde$cn4j$1@dont-email.me> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 14:00:30 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > > On 07/07/2022 12:49, Joerg Lorenz wrote: >> Am 07.07.22 um 12:20 schrieb The Natural Philosopher: >>> There was a lot of discussion on this, but rather less actual data. >>> >>> Yesterday a friend turned up with an EEEpc 1000H with 1GB RAM and a >>> 1.6GHz 32 bit Atom processor, loaded up with a corrupted version of >>> XP...and a request to make it work or chuck it. >>> >>> To cut a long story short, with a display of 1024x600 it looked big >>> enough to take Linux Mint, so I downloaded an onsolete19.2 Mint MATE >>> version from somewhere (that's the latest 32 bit) threw that on a 1TB >>> USB drive (I simply have no pen drives!) and live booted it. >> Xfce would have been even lighter on the machine. >> > Please. > > I am sick to death at hearing how this or that window manager would > have used a megabyte of RAM less. More than just one MB. It makes a difference, especially at boot time. > Show me the browser that uses 500 megabytes less, and I'll sit up and > take notice. In a German language usenet group there is currently a discussion about that. Some users notice that Firefox uses more RAM than for example Chromium, others cannot confirm it. If the hard disk is large enough I'd install both and see which uses less RAM. [...] > To that end, as I may have to support it, my choice was for the distro > I am most familiar with. Not because am a genius for using it, but > because around ten years ago it happened to be the first satisfactory > debian based distro I stumbled on. Why Debian? People I knew were > developing and supporting it. Been there. About six years ago a completely new to computers 80 year old neighbor approached me "Hey, you know computer, right?". Me "*SIGH*", knowing what comes next. Yes, viruses on his Windows 7 or 8. Knowing he has zero experience I installed Ubuntu, set me up a user account and allowed me (not him - and that is important) root access. Connected via his WIFI to do admin stuff (eventually had the computer do automated package updates) and put his computer into the DMZ of the WIFI router and setup DYN DNS. Worked fine for him for years and still does. He moved out but apparently took the router with him. I can still access this machine remotely. Only problem, his Ubuntu is outdated and I don't dare to do a remote upgrade, fearing it will fail and he's without working computer. -- Andreas
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Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-07 11:20 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2022-07-07 12:47 +0200
Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-07 12:00 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2022-07-07 10:52 -0400
Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-07 16:52 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2022-07-07 11:50 -0500
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2022-07-07 14:51 -0400
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-07 22:07 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-08 09:50 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-08 10:12 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-08 09:48 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2022-07-08 14:04 -0400
Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-08 19:35 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2022-07-08 15:54 -0400
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2022-07-08 10:27 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-18 23:59 -0400
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2022-07-07 13:49 +0200
Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-07 14:00 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2022-07-07 11:12 -0400
Re: Linux on a small memory PC not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2022-07-08 09:15 +1000
Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-08 09:56 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2022-07-09 09:41 +1000
Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-09 01:30 -0400
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2022-07-09 09:09 +0200
Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-09 11:42 -0400
Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-09 10:00 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-09 11:54 -0400
Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-09 17:12 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-10 00:41 -0400
Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-10 10:58 +0100
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2022-07-08 01:50 +0000
Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-07 21:57 -0400
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2022-07-08 09:50 +0200
Re: Linux on a small memory PC doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2022-07-08 14:18 +0000
Re: Linux on a small memory PC Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2022-07-08 23:05 +0000
Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-07 21:15 -0400
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