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| From | The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.setup |
| Subject | Re: Linux on a small memory PC |
| Date | 2022-07-07 14:00 +0100 |
| Organization | A little, after lunch |
| Message-ID | <ta6lde$cn4j$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <ta6c1l$bneq$1@dont-email.me> <ta6h8u$16vfo$1@solani.org> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
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. Show me the browser that uses 500 megabytes less, and I'll sit up and take notice. I am not on the business of promoting my ego by my choice of Linux distro or window manager. My purpose was to show an example of what can be done and give a rough idea of performance. I looked into the possibility of upgrading the RAM , fitting an SSD, etc etc, bit it simply wasn't worth it. The task was to take a now dead child's machine and make it fit for a new purpose. Mostly as a word processor. 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. The answer to the unspoken question is simply this 1GB of RAM and an 1.6Ghz Atom is (just) enough to run a modern distro pretty well, (as good as XP) but probably won't support video. -- A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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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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