On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Tim wrote: > I have to agree. If you're really looking to save money, scale back those > things hogging resources on your box. This doesn't necessarily require > switching distributions. (I can't comment on upgrading to later Ubuntu > versions, though you should consider that.) Switch to a less > resource-intensive window manager (i.e. not Gnome or KDE based) and try > out a few different browsers.
This is why we run xubuntu on my wife's lower-end machines. Also, it turns out that seamonkey is more gentle using available resources than are the separate firefox and thunderchicken. While Xfce is bloating one does not need to install or use the plethora of toolettes. > Adding RAM is always a convenient hack to add life to an aging box and it > seems nowadays most software on Linux is chewing through RAM like it's > going out of style, so you probably need it. That is, if the particular type of RAM one needs is still available. Machines don't need to be too old nowadays to find no one's making the RAM it requires. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
