On 1/19/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Vlad Dogaru ha scritto: > Hello, > > I am recently growing fed up with strongly graphical applications > causing my (admittedly quite old) computer to slow down to a crawl. I > like the concept of Ratpoison and am thinking of switching to it, but > could use a few tips for making the big change. Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience, but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that allows outdated machines to be still usable -the CPU is rarely a problem, unless you often do something quite computationally intensive.
I have 384 megs of RAM and no imediate possibility of buying more. I realise it is arguably sufficient for many lightweight applications, but, as I mentioned, it is becoming increasingly frustrating, even with the real power of Gentoo and Fluxbox (the two have changed my life -- literally).
I am especially looking for a browser to substitute Firefox (it's great, > but quite a memory hog). I like links, what with its graphical > capabilities, but it lacks tabs and that's a major downside in my > vision. I've tried Conkeror for Firefox, but it's too Emacs-centric (vim > person here) and also disables tabs (or maybe it's me -- I couldn't get > them to work). Did you try Dillo? I don't know if it has tabs but it seems *very* lightweight. Otherwise maybe Opera? people insist in saying it's really fast and light (and has tabs:as a matter of fact, Opera invented them!), but I personally don't know.
I read up on Dillo and it looks promising. I will try it. As for Opera, I used it on Windows for quite some time, but at one point I started to be annoyed by the numerous marginally useful (at least to me) features that got added. I still regard it as a great browser, comparable to Firefox, but not what I am looking for.
Any other tips or nifty programs you could link me to would be greatly > appreciated, especially Ratpoison-related; For instance, C-t is too > RSI-prone for my taste and conflicts with Firefox's new tab button (I > want to switch, but I realise fx could prove irreplaceable, mainly due > to the large userbase). Try to see what purposely lightweight distros like DamnSmallLinux, VectorLinux and Puppy Linux install by default, I think you'll have a good choice of lightweight packages. However as far as concerning ratpoison, I know nothing... > How's my English? How about my Netiquette? > Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you. This is going to be the best sign of 2007 :) - I really appreciate this kind of approach.
Thanks. I really look forward to constructive critique. Vlad -- How's my English? How about my Netiquette? Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you.
