On Tue Oct 2 7:47 , Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:54:54PM -0700: >> My friend's PC insisted on root password for maintenance when booting up >> (or press a key to continue). Fortunately, my friend sometimes pays >> attention to warnings. >> >> I supplied root password. >> mount worked. >> df did not. >> man fsck did not work. > >Probably 'cuz your manpages are in /usr/man, and /usr wasn't mounted. Good point. Thanks. >[snip] >> She uses it mainly for internet and printing. And it is running >> noticeably slower with fc7 than it was with fc4. I think (like mine) it > >The same thing happened with my Alphas -- the upgrades from rh4 to rh7 >resulted in increasingly unusable performance, and the "old versions" >were not supported. Eventually, I ended up with a choice: self-support >(time consuming), stick with the old (security nightmare), or go with >the new (paperweights). > >This is the point when I bailed on RedHat, and started referring to 'em >as the "Microsoft of the Linux community": You're on a hardware upgrade >path, get used to it. What are nimble alternatives? I'll probably load the same onto mine. > >> is hitting swap. What are the names of the window managers that take >> very little overhead? > >TWM and AmiWM come to mind, but they're also very basic. > >I think ctwm, fvwm, and fvwm2 are all comparitively lightweight. > >I don't know how lightweight WindowMaker is. > >Gnome/KDE are probably the first big things you can do in the GUI to >reduce your memory footprint. > >> I'm probably going to get a newer PC for myself. But she doesn't care >> about the PC much beyond surfing the internet and probably won't want to >> spend the money. She probably won't hesitate to spend it if I make the >> case for it. But for her needs, just reducing the overhead will >> probably suffice. > >So if you put it in kiosk mode, she'd be fine? :) Probably. But I have no idea how to do that. > >-- >As I recall, fvmw2 was quite configurable, if needing a lot of noodling. >Stewart Stremler Thanks. ---- Msg sent via CWNet - http://www.cwnet.com/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
