On 1 Mar, 14:55, Stephen <[email protected]> wrote: > Christ, I've got Debian Squeeze, (Stable) loaded on an older Toshiba (Older > than a 'M' processor ) running Gnome and Picasa 3.8. It's not _that_ bad. > Yours is much faster than a laptop P3 with 2x 128 Mb RAM. ;)
glad to hear you're happy with that config and able to do something useful. Mine has ~760 MB, 1G PM CPU but I need to keep Firefox and OpenOffice open and often GIMP as well, plus a number of xterm and minor stuff. A P3 with 256 MB would serve only as paperbrick wrt running FF or OOo alone; actually I have to run FF in a ulimit(ed) terminal to prevent it to eat all VM and grind the system to halt. Of course it gets killed often oom, but at least it won't bring down other stuff. No, Opera is not a solution, despite claims. All this stuff is well into the bloatware zone. And killing all other programs just to run an istance of picasa or whatever is surely not an option. thanx -- paolo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en.
