On 10/29/19 9:56 AM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote:
On 10/29/19 12:51 AM, Trent via blfs-support wrote:
[trim!]
Though I would still like to know about adding a swap partition.
I am considering using a very low power Mini-ITX board I got with 8GB
of RAM. The problem is that is has a Celeron N3050 (Asus N3050M-E).
While it is rather newer than all the other available lower power
systems I got available, it for some reason does not support any MMX,
or SSE extensions. I tried running Windows 10 on it. According to the
resource meter, Windows 10 has both cores (no hyper threading) pegged
in the 90 percentile range constantly. Meanwhile, the current Atom
board I am using now, actually runs Windows 10 decently.
Anyone know how good, or bad this would do once I got a desktop
environment going?
Thanks again everyone!
Hi Trent,
When you add a swap partition, you should be good to go. Desktop
environment should run okay on either of those depending on what it is,
X is really light. I had GNOME running on my 32-bit machine, and that's
where I'm headed right now on that one (fixing some 32-bit compilation
problems). It ran pretty well considering it only had an Intel 945GM for
a GPU. Plasma didn't run though but at least started. I got the most
performance out of XFCE on that one, although because of my vision it
was very painful to use at times.
Any of those machines that you have should do a good job! Although your
Celeron N3050 will severely struggle without MMX or SSE support in
anything that requires heavy graphics rendering - but something like
Fluxbox or IceWM would probably work good on it. I'd honestly stay with
the Atom if you can though.
Just remember that when swap is used, things get very slow. A 10x
increase in build times for those large packages that use swap would not
be unexpected.
-- Bruce
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