[ale] Laptops and Linux

[Bob Toxen]

Besides those three memory hogs, you're probably using a bloated
desktop with a gazillion unneeded graphics daemons.

I'm quite happy with fvwm on Slackware on my 1.4GHz AMD and 384MB memory
on my low-end R31 IBM ThinkPad laptop.  I run two broswers and a
gazillion xterms on 6 desktops and it is VERY fast.

Bob Toxen
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On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:35:29PM -0500, Robert Story wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:57:59 -0700 JK wrote:
> J> Robert L. Harris wrote:
> J> >   I'm looking to get another laptop.  Right now I'm on a Lenovo (IBM) 3000
> J> > N100.  Core 2 Duo, 512Meg Ram, 1.66Ghz and it's killing me.  Open Firefox, 
> J> > Amarok and an OpenOffice Spreadsheet and I can grind it to a halt for 10 
> J> > minutes.
> J> 
> J> Giving your old machine a RAM infusion (even just bringing
> J> it up to 1G) might make a huge difference.
> 
> Seconded! You've named 3 of the biggest memory hogging applications around. I
> think doubling (or better) you memory will definitely help. Starting all 3 at
> once might still take a while, but things will be much smoother once they are
> all up and running..