Re: Linux on a small memory PC

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	2022-07-08 09:56 +0100
Organization	A little, after lunch
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On 08/07/2022 00:15, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 07/07/2022 12:49, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Your main complaint was about boot time, that's one of the things
> that slows up boot time. If you were interested you'd try a
> lightweight WM yourself and see how less processing required for
> window/menu operations makes performance after start-up seem better
> as well.
> 
No, what slows up boot time is disk IO. And to a lesser extent CPU power.



>> Show me the browser that uses 500 megabytes less, and I'll sit up and
>> take notice.
> 
> I do most of my browsing in Dillo, but I doubt that you want to
> hear that.
> 
Whatever rocks your boat.

>> 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.
> 
> So the topic is "Mint on a small memory PC", not Linux, because
> that's all you're looking at.
> 

Mint *is* linux. oh dear. The 'argumentum ad semanticum'.

Not only is it linux, its extremely representative of all the sorts of 
desktop linices that one would want to install to upgrade old hardware.

You wont catch a philosopher out with the Problem Of Induction

"There exists a Linux that will outperform the one you happen to have 
installed:  prove me wrong"



>> 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.
> 
> Video in the browser maybe (I don't enable that in Firefox anyway
> so I'm not sure what the overhead is), but standard-definition (and
> maybe HD) video should play fine in mplayer or VLC.
> 
Well I may just try that. Since I will be in the same place as that 
machine later.


-- 
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale 
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain

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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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