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Keith Lofstrom dijo:
>On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 01:04:19PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> here is the best part: I plugged it into the Thinkpad and booted to
>> it. Not only did it boot, but there was not even the slightest
>> hiccup. I expected the video at le
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 01:04:19PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> here is the best part: I plugged it into the Thinkpad and booted to it.
> Not only did it boot, but there was not even the slightest hiccup. I
> expected the video at least to be messed up, but the screen came up
> exactly as it l
Joe,
I didn't find any bad reviews of the current Gazelle Pro...I think they
changed it over time and the older reviews (by several years) talk about a
system different from the one on sale today.
I like the gazelle except for the video card...would rather have more
choices for gaming. I read som
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Mark Phillips
wrote:
> Jason,
>
> Not to hijack your thread, but how do you like your Bonobo Extreme? I am
> thinking of getting new System 76, and I am deciding between the Gazelle
> Pro or maybe the Bonobo Extreme. However, the Bononbo Extreme looks like a
> beas
Jason,
Not to hijack your thread, but how do you like your Bonobo Extreme? I am
thinking of getting new System 76, and I am deciding between the Gazelle
Pro or maybe the Bonobo Extreme. However, the Bononbo Extreme looks like a
beast, and may not be that portable. Is this your first System 76, or
I can't believe that this all worked.
My old computer was a Thinkpad T61 with Xubuntu 12.04, still functional,
but replaced last December with a new System76 Bonobo Extreme. The
Thinkpad went on a shelf.
The Bonobo Extreme came with a 1 TB hybrid drive, but I added a 480 GB
Crucial mSATA SSD, whi
On 2013-11-26, 4:22 PM, "John Jason Jordan" wrote:
>I finally bought a new laptop. This is a Sager resold by Linux reseller
>System76. It is scheduled to arrive in time for the December 15 Clinic,
>where it will get baptized with Xubuntu 12.04.3 Desktop. I told them
>not to bother installing Ubu
I finally bought a new laptop. This is a Sager resold by Linux reseller
System76. It is scheduled to arrive in time for the December 15 Clinic,
where it will get baptized with Xubuntu 12.04.3 Desktop. I told them
not to bother installing Ubuntu 13.10, but if they do I will just wipe
it out and repl
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Tim Wescott wrote:
>
> If you just love Ubuntu to pieces, going from Ubuntu to Xbuntu will make
> for a big drop in resource utilization.
>
It's worth noting that this switch doesn't require a new OS install,
just aptitude install xubuntu-desktop (or something li
David Mandel wrote:
"BUT firefox!! It is just a pig. (But I like pigs, so
I continue to use it.) What is worse it's memory requirements seem to
increase with time. I find I have to shut firefox down every few days
and restart it to recover memory. Sure glad I don't need to do this
VMWare."
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:32:28PM -0800, Mike Connors wrote:
> There's 2 other *lightweight* graphical browsers I've heard good
> things about but never used that you might want to check out: Dillo
> and Arora.
Arora is worth a look. It began as a Qt4 WebKit demo app, and has
since become a Real
I have found much the same thing. Most all of my RAM goes to a few
piggy applications like VMWare, OpenOffice, gimp, and firefox. Some
of these like VMWare and gimp are serious applications doing serious
work on major data sets; so I can understand their large RAM
requirements - BUT firefox!! It
Mike Connors wrote:
> Marvin Kosmal wrote:
>
>> My current computer is AMD +1800 .. ..The CPU goes to 100% when I use
>> a browser..
>>
>> I am running Ubuntu 8-10 Intrepid
>>
>> Suggestions for Cheap upgrade??? Something that will last another 4
>> or 5 years??
>>
>>
> At the ris
> I hate to disagree, but I did some experiments a couple years ago, and
> found that Firefox dominated RAM usage, no matter the desktop environment,
> WM, tuning or other things. Everything else was not that significant.
Ah, I don't doubt that, I guess my suggestion was more focused on
freeing
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Aaron Burt wrote:
> I hate to disagree, but I did some experiments a couple years ago, and
> found that Firefox dominated RAM usage, no matter the desktop environment,
> WM, tuning or other things. Everything else was not that significant.
Interesting, Aaron. I've been ru
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Tim wrote:
> It's true, it is getting harder. And if you do find it, it's often
> quite expensive.
Before the Toshiba Tecra gave up I considered buying more RAM for it. To
add 500M would cost me > $200. Feh!
Rich
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:47:51AM -0800, Tim wrote:
> Switch to a less resource-intensive window manager (i.e. not Gnome or KDE
> based) and try out a few different browsers.
I hate to disagree, but I did some experiments a couple years ago, and
found that Firefox dominated RAM usage, no matter
> > Adding RAM is always a convenient hack to add life to an aging box and it
> > seems nowadays most software on Linux is chewing through RAM like it's
> > going out of style, so you probably need it.
>
>That is, if the particular type of RAM one needs is still available.
> Machines don't nee
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Tim wrote:
> I have to agree. If you're really looking to save money, scale back those
> things hogging resources on your box. This doesn't necessarily require
> switching distributions. (I can't comment on upgrading to later Ubuntu
> versions, though you should consider tha
> At the risk of offending all of the Ubuntu lovers on PLUG, I've never liked
> the poor resource utilization of Ubuntu. I prefer to run Debian,
> specifically
> Sidux, which is distro based on Debian Sid.
I have to agree. If you're really looking to save money, scale back
those things hoggin
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:45:56PM -0800, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> I need a new computer
>
> I am on a very limited budget...
>
> My current computer is AMD +1800 .. ..The CPU goes to 100% when I use
> a browser..
Your computer sounds plenty fast. Is your disk light on a lot? How much
RAM d
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> I need a new computer
>
> I am on a very limited budget...
Marvin,
Toshibas have worked well for me and can be purchased for less money than
the venerable Lenovo/IBM ThinkPads. Check the large retailers (like BestBuy)
for sales.
Rich
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Try this company:
http://3btech.net/systems2-amd.html
Very good deals.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> I need a new computer
>
> I am on a very limited budget...
>
> My current computer is AMD +1800 .. ..The CPU goes to 100% when I use
> a browser..
>
> I am runni
I would recommend an OS upgrade. Intrepid was not the best with system
resources. I am running a beta of Lucid Lynx (Kubuntu 10.04) on a dell mini
9 with an atom processor and firefox is only using 3% of my CPU. This
netbook is MUCH lower power than your system so perhaps the software upgrade
is
Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> My current computer is AMD +1800 .. ..The CPU goes to 100% when I use
> a browser..
>
> I am running Ubuntu 8-10 Intrepid
>
> Suggestions for Cheap upgrade??? Something that will last another 4
> or 5 years??
>
At the risk of offending all of the Ubuntu lovers on PL
Larry
Good thought...
I just may do that...
I love talking to Linux Folks..
Thanks
Marvin
On 2/23/10, Larry Williams wrote:
> Marvin Kosmal wrote:
>> I need a new computer
>>
>> I am on a very limited budget...
>
> Have you checked freegeek? They have some for sale, but for a few hours
Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> I need a new computer
>
> I am on a very limited budget...
Have you checked freegeek? They have some for sale, but for a few hours
of your time they will give you one.
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I need a new computer
I am on a very limited budget...
My current computer is AMD +1800 .. ..The CPU goes to 100% when I use
a browser..
I am running Ubuntu 8-10 Intrepid
Suggestions for Cheap upgrade??? Something that will last another 4
or 5 years??
Thanks
Marvin
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