On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 13:37 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote: > Bruce Byfield wrote: > > > It depends a lot on how you set things up. Use the Reiser filesystem, > > and shut down a few extras like multiple workspaces, and a 500Mhz > > processor with 128MB RAM runs Ubuntu fairly well. You'll notice that OOo > > takes a long time to start, but, in general, performance is acceptable. > > > > Not that I want to make a big thing of it, but 128MB is not usable in my > books. With X, Blackbox, OO2 and NOTHING else running, you're already > *well* into virtual ram ... and that's when your performance goes from > reasonable to pathetic. You want to have some chip ram available to play > with. Also keep in mind the original poster was talking about putting > this on a laptop ... and a CHEAP one at that. So the performance of the > hard disk ( and hence virtual memory ) is going to be pretty damned > horrible.
Not really. I've tried the configuration I mentioned on an old laptop. For basic office productivity and web surfing, I found it adequate. It's not what I'd choose for my main machine, but, as an emergency machine it was bearable for light duties. Had I been planning to use it for any length of time, I probably would have done more to lighten the load, like researching the smallest window manager, and possibly using AbiWord instead of OOo -- or even emacs and only starting X when I needed it. There are lots of ways to adjust to less than optimum hardware if you have to. It's not a big deal unless you make it one, especially if the alternative is no computer at all. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 Burnaby, BC, Canada http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield "All the ancient kings came to my door They said, "Do you want to be an ancient king too?" I said, "Oh yes, very much But I think my timing's wrong" -Dan Bern, "Jerusalem" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
