Hi
I am looking at other peoples experience with Linux on laptops. I am looking for practical minimum specs for reasonable performance. I have a reputation for build Frankenputers. Every computer in the house right now (3 actively used windows XP desktops, 2 window XP laptops, I have over the last month have done two tests. One with Puppy Linux and with Fedora. Puppy is installed on 1.3 G Hz Pentium M with 512 Meg of memory with a 30 G hard-disk. (IBM T40). The distro was Lupu 5.2.8 which is a reduced Ubuntu distro. Fedora is installed on a 1.5 G Hz Pentium M with 512 Meg of memory and an 80g hard disk. It a Toshiba Tablet convertible Protege M200. The distro was the Live Fedora 13 installed to a hard disk. In the puppy case I did a funky usb stick install. The boot starts from one stick and the saved state is saved to another stick. This is a feature of Puppy as it is designed to have a support for a install that does not disturb an existing OS. The typical case would be to boot from the live CD and save a 1.25G Squash FS partition on the host OS's files system (e.g. NTFS under windows). The business with usb was me tinkering. For a performance boost I used gparted to shrink the NTFS partition so I could create a Linux swap partition. Puppy searches for it on boot up and uses it as needed. I gave it about 1/2 a Gig but it can use more to manage the SFS. It auto saves to the SFS on the stick periodically. Performance was fine on this system. Could have 10 web pages tabs open in firefox (3.6.24), a file manage (Tux Commander or Rox filer) and edit word docs (Abiword). The only slow down was the auto save dominated the system every 10 minutes or so for 10 - 15 seconds. I am writing this on the Fedora system. I have be using it for only two days is is an early opinion. I don't see the system responding really crisply to mouse clicks. I put the task bar panel on the left side with auto hide (I do the same thing under windows). Under the stress of some other disk intensive activity, the task bar leaves graphical debris on the screen for a few seconds until it catches up with itself. (I can get windows to do similar things too) Web 2.0 apps work ok. I am using yahoo mail and I used a on-line PDF editor (PDFEscape). I will know more over the next week because I have contract that requires it so I am learning its features and foibles. Other experiences???? Nelson Asinowski 514-685-6848 [email protected]
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