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Vlad Dogaru ha scritto: |
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> Hello, |
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> I am recently growing fed up with strongly graphical applications |
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> causing my (admittedly quite old) computer to slow down to a crawl. I |
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> like the concept of Ratpoison and am thinking of switching to it, but |
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> could use a few tips for making the big change. |
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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but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that allows outdated |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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> 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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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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> 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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> How's my English? How about my Netiquette? |
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> Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you. |
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This is going to be the best sign of 2007 :) - I really appreciate this |
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kind of approach. |
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m. |
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