Re: net book (small) install advice

Arun Khan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.luni.tech
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Richard Reina <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have an ASUS netbook with about a 4GB hard drive that is currently running
> Unbuntu-Gnome but is maxed out on space.  All I really use it for is to run
> procmail, mysql and some other perl scripts that manipulate pdfs and text
> files. I was wondering if someone could recommend an install for it that
> would take up a lot less space.  A graphical interface would be nice as I
> occasionally would like to look at pdfs with evince, but if I had to I could
> do with out it.  If anyone has any advise on small installs and can let me
> know I would really appreciate it.

In the first avatar of these devices (7" display), Asus had it's own
customized desktop (a Xandros spin IIRC) with KDE apps which fitted in
about 2GB of flash media.

If you are using flash disk, then please be aware that excessive
writes with swap and log files etc. will shorten the life span of the
media.

-- Arun Khan
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