Hi John, I'm forwarding your email to the Tails support list. Let's follow up on your questions there.
> To whom it may concern, > > I am newer to GNU/Linux but know a few things and already looked into info > related to my issue. > > With Tails my computer used to freeze on occasion, and I would have to start > all over again- turn the computer off- or even have to unplug it along with > the battery!, let it cool down since it was hot from working hard, booting > up again, setting up preferences, logging onto internet, hardening the rest > of preferences in var. programs, connect to the network, and finally use it > again ~1/2 hour later...! > > So doing this only 2 times takes an hour! and that doesnt include time to do > things. Also, sometimes it freezes at the wrong time before I saved a file I > was working on losing important data, or before I followed up on a link in > another tab in the browser, that I cant access anymore due to the freeze, > that at times was also very important. > > Now, the computer freezes Every time!- soon after I get to the desktop, or > often just at some point of getting things set up.. > So I was wondering if you could Please help me to see which of the following > options listed below are possible to enable me to work with your great live > disc! with my older computer with limited memory, and is non-pae. > > 1) Does the iso also come with any other Desktop Environment as a bootup > option- lighter one that uses less memory? > > 2) I saw that if one uses a persistent volume one can Install additional > software (as long as it's avail. with Debian). If that is the case, can one > Install onto a USB drive a 2nd lighter Desktop Environment along with the > iso? > > 3) Does the Gnome Desktop vers. included with Tails contain a 'Fallback > Desktop' that is MUCH less resource intensive (esp. memory) ? > > Thank you so much for your help with this! > > John - hopeful there is a workable option to use Tails :) _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
