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Hi, |
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:40:21 +0000 |
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"b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a |
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> minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience, |
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> but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that allows outdated |
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> machines to be still usable -the CPU is rarely a problem, unless you |
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> often do something quite computationally intensive. |
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Agreed. Anything below 128MB will be sluggish, no matter what. You can |
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only change in what way it is sluggish, at least a bit. |
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> > I am especially looking for a browser to substitute Firefox (it's great, |
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> > but quite a memory hog). I like links, what with its graphical |
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> > capabilities, but it lacks tabs and that's a major downside in my |
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> > vision. I've tried Conkeror for Firefox, but it's too Emacs-centric (vim |
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> > person here) and also disables tabs (or maybe it's me -- I couldn't get |
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> > them to work). |
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> Did you try Dillo? I don't know if it has tabs but it seems *very* |
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> lightweight. |
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Dillo's nice and all, but it really has problems with complex sites. |
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And don't expect it to show flash animation (I'm not sure if that is |
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good or bad, actually), run Javascript (does it do that to some extend? |
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Last time I had a look it didn't)... |
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> Otherwise maybe Opera? people insist in saying it's really fast and |
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> light (and has tabs:as a matter of fact, Opera invented them!), but I |
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> personally don't know. |
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Opera also is not free software (but it is as in beer). Personally, I |
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like Opera very much. Does all the current pages (minor exceptions, but |
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more page-hickups than real broken pages). But it will need RAM, too. |
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That 128MB rule basically applies here. E.g. my currently opened Opera |
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has a RSS of 76MB -- with 10 tabs open, part of them doing heavy |
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Javascript jobs, like netvibes. |
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> > Any other tips or nifty programs you could link me to would be greatly |
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> > appreciated, especially Ratpoison-related; For instance, C-t is too |
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> > RSI-prone for my taste and conflicts with Firefox's new tab button (I |
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> > want to switch, but I realise fx could prove irreplaceable, mainly due |
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> > to the large userbase). |
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> Try to see what purposely lightweight distros like DamnSmallLinux, |
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> VectorLinux and Puppy Linux install by default, I think you'll have a |
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> good choice of lightweight packages. However as far as concerning |
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> ratpoison, I know nothing... |
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If the OP likes ratpoison, he might enjoy evilwm (very small memory |
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footprint, read the man page before running). If customization matters, |
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I found pekwm do a very good job at this. Complex, albeit easy |
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configuration. Nice themes -- but I did disable the themes, my WM has |
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only keystrokes and neither borders nor a title bar. |
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When there's need for a full desktop environment, I would suggest Xfce, |
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too. |
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-hwh |
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