Re: [Trisquel-users] Does gNewSense use less cpu and ram?

2014-08-01 Thread shiretoko
You're reffering to Debian Squeeze, not Wheezy. The latter one is the current stable release and it would be quite decent if gnewsense was based on it. However, you're right with the rest of your points. Squeeze still gets support so using it is not a problem from a security point of view -

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does gNewSense use less cpu and ram?

2014-08-01 Thread davesamcdxv
GnewSense 3 is definitely based on debian Squeeze (6), not Wheezy(7), considering how perfectly it works with GTK+2 themes, and how perfectly it doesn't with my Nvidia GeForce 6200 GPU.

[Trisquel-users] Does gNewSense use less cpu and ram?

2014-07-31 Thread adel . afzal
gNewSense seems to use mate (or maybe gnome 2); I heard that mate is a little easier on older hardware. I remember reading that there's no benefit in switching to mate if the programs rely on gnome3 anyway. Is that correct? I may be totally wrong. I'm thinking of giving gNewSense a try

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does gNewSense use less cpu and ram?

2014-07-31 Thread adel . afzal
Do current versions of programs require a more current version of gnome to run? So gNewSense 3.1 will only run years-old versions of programs?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does gNewSense use less cpu and ram?

2014-07-31 Thread legimet . calc
I thought gNewSense 3.1 is based on Debian 6.0 squeeze.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does gNewSense use less cpu and ram?

2014-07-31 Thread adel . afzal
Oh I understand now -- thanks MB. I will take your advice and use Mini if I need a lighter system down the road. I wanted to try gNewSense for the nostalgic gui, and the possibility of getting a little more battery life out of my laptop. My laptop handles standard Trisquel fine though,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does gNewSense use less cpu and ram?

2014-07-31 Thread mikko . viinamaki
These suggestions might help with the battery time https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/optimizing-battery-time

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does gNewSense use less cpu and ram?

2014-07-31 Thread adel . afzal
thanks man