On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 22:59 -0400, Robert Myers wrote: > It all depends on how you want to use your time. If you want to > re-tweak your system with every new release, I suppose that's one > option. Sometimes there are sentimental reasons to keep old equipment running. The Armada has been running linux since RedHat 6. It's still as slim and lightweight as any affordable new PC. Of course screen resolution is poor, and batteries are a problem... But it does the job. > If you want a solution that doesn't depend on constantly proving your > Linux manhood, consider: > > 1. A light-weight desktop, or You know these new NetBook thingies? Guess what. Gnome has adapted to them. After all, Moblin, a desktop designed for NetBooks, is based on the Gnome framework. The Gnome framework is not as heavyweight as people often claim. It used to be a really bad resource hog, but that was a long time ago. There isn't actually much that I do on my old bangers. Mostly, it's a matter of tweaking the GUI on laptops with little screen real estate. Reducing font sizes and so on. That also goes for modern NetBooks, so it's not really specific to old hardware. For both desktops and laptops, remove the most obvious resource hogs in the UI department. Try removing background images, gradient-filled borders and so on. Moving frame only when moving a window. Small things that may have a big impact depending on your hardware. Most of the tweaking on old systems has nothing to do with the desktop environment. Use noatime mount option to reduce I/O load. Stop the sendmail daemon, pcscd and all other services you don't need... All that stuff has to be done no matter what desktop you run. And it should be done also on new and fast PC's as it reduces the vulnerability of a system. Not only with respect to attacks, but also software bugs that could make some unused service become a resource hog. -- birger -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
