On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 07:34:51PM +1000, Mark Trickett wrote:
That is what I was looking for. I was considering lightweight graphical desktops, and not sure of quite which. Comments from the experience of others is what I value in this situation.
lxde is another popular option for a lightweight window manager.
Will consider the zram, but wait for budget.
sorry, i must have given the wrong impression. zram is free, it's included with recent-ish kernels. it uses some of your existing RAM and creates a compressed ramdisk swap device. so if you have 2GB, you might configure it to use up to 1GB as compressed swap and, depending on exactly what was being paged out and how compressible it was, you get much more than that. when a process needs some code/data swapped back in, it comes from the zram swap which is much faster than disk - especially the slow 5400rpm disks typically in a laptop. (of course, if you've got an SSD then it's probably not worth it)
Dropped a bit of timber when chasing mice in the walls. Have mostly eliminated critters, but still more needs doing.
mice love cats, esp with toxoplasmosis.
Noted, it might be possible to do an install to a disk in a better PC, then transfer. If I can get some specs, would you, or Russell Coker be able to source old RAM and post for a payment. I do not wish to impose, and I did "haunt" the Swap Meets, but being four hours from Melbourne makes it a bit difficult. I am also now a bit out of touch with most things post Pentium Classic, not entirely, but certainly not so familiar.
what sort do you need? i may have some old DDR or DDR2 RAM lying around you can have. i don't have any old laptop ram, i've always been averse to laptops (i dislike tiny keyboards, tiny screens and especially touchpads) and haven't had any real need for one...i only really bought my x401u because it was cheap and i wanted a keyboard/screen/ssh terminal to take to linux conf. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #446: Mailer-daemon is busy burning your message in hell.