In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 292, Issue 8, Message: 13
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:52:59 + Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:03:45 +1000
> Da Rock wrote:
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> > Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now.
> >
> > I have revived an old laptop which has
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:21:06AM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
> On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 04:25:31 PST Bill Moran wrote:
> >In response to Da Rock :
> >
> >>Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now.
> >>
> >>I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it i
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Anyway, like I said, let's not get too carried away with this line of
thought. This thread is about tuning for very little RAM. Choosing
lightweight apps is only one of the things needed to tackle that
problem.
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On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 21:02 +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
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> > I don't think we want to hijack this thread or this forum and turn it
> > into a debate over which window managers and apps are best. As I
> > pointed out in my followup to my original reply, there's already a
> > voluminous disc
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I don't think we want to hijack this thread or this forum and turn it
into a debate over which window managers and apps are best. As I
pointed out in my followup to my original reply, there's already a
voluminous discussion on those topics. I think we should simply point
interested reade
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 09:52:32 PST Warren Block wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Charlie Kester wrote:
Assuming you have to use X, you'll want to avoid heavyweight desktop
environments like KDE or Gnome. I like tiled window managers like musca
or dwm myself, but your skeptics will probably want a mo
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Charlie Kester wrote:
Assuming you have to use X, you'll want to avoid heavyweight desktop
environments like KDE or Gnome. I like tiled window managers like musca
or dwm myself, but your skeptics will probably want a more traditional
window manager (aka MS-Windows clone) lik
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 09:21:06 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
For some ideas on which apps to try, look at the apps bundled in some of
the Linux distros that target small machines.
http://bengross.com/smallunix.html has a good list of these distros.
Hmm, I probably should have checked that referenc
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 04:25:31 PST Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Da Rock :
Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now.
I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is
absolutely hammering the swap.
I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skep
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:03:45 +1000
Da Rock wrote:
> Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now.
>
> I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is
> absolutely hammering the swap.
>
> I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no money
In response to Da Rock :
> Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now.
>
> I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is
> absolutely hammering the swap.
>
> I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no money, so I
> need email, inter
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:03:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now.
>
> I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is
> absolutely hammering the swap.
>
> I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no
Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now.
I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is
absolutely hammering the swap.
I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no money, so I
need email, internet (with plugins), openoffice, acrobat,
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