Re: Slackware on EEE
Gil Andre <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.slackware |
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| Organization | Barbarians, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Ottavio, On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:39:39 +0100 Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19 September 2012 20:36, Gil Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have an Asus eeePC-701 (the 4GB model!) happily running Slackware > > 13.37 here. > > How do you cope with only 512 Mb RAM? Firefox uses almost 400 Mb of > memory of my ancient desktop. > > I couldn't even think of running any desktop heavier than Fluxbox! Well, yes, but I don't use Firefox on this machine: I installed Opera, and yes, it runs under Fluxbox (which is the only "desktop" worth using IMHO). Opera has a mail and chat client integrated, and it runs well on a small configuration (much "lighter" than Firefox anyway). Also, I did not install KDE, which made the basic install much, much smaller. For my day-to-day work I don't need much more than that, and the console applications delivered with Slackware are more than enough to provide plenty of functions that I may need. -- Gil ANDRE gil [at] panix [dot] com andre [dot] g [at] wanadoo [dot] fr ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Il faut beaucoup philosopher, il faut beaucoup penser. Celui qui pense peu se trompe beaucoup". Leonard de Vinci.