[ale] Dell Ispirion B130 laptop with 2GBdisk and 2GB memory (max)

[Jim Kinney]

Check abiword for a tiny, fast word processor.
On Feb 2, 2016 8:19 PM, "Steve Litt" <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 18:24:41 -0500
> Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:34:32 -0500
> > Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > He may meant 20GB. Puppy Linux is starting to get fat as well. No
> > > offense here implied. The only advantage us running from USB drive
> > > or memory disk and very comprehensive drivers and firmware
> > > collection. But if you tried latest "quirky" boot up takes forever.
> > >
> > > But I guess that is the future OS are getting fat and slow and
> > > thankfully hardware manufacturers are able to put 4-8 cores in chip
> > > for next to nothing.
> > >
> > > Slim distro building around busybox is Slitaz. ISO is 50 MB
> > > installed on HDD is around 320. You get desktop file manager
> > > browser and web-based control panel.
> > >
> > > But only my opinion.
> >
> > Nobody can argue that today's Linux can run on my 1998 Pentium II
> > 300mhz with 16*M*B of RAM, like Win98 or 1999 Red Hat 5.1 could do.
> > But that sort of misses the point: My Pentium II300 cost me about $2K
> > in December 1998.
>
> More news...
>
> Today I used the Void no-GUI live installer CD to install Void on a
> Qemu VM with 128MB RAM, 4GB disk, and a single core modern speed CPU (I
> didn't know how to slow down the CPU in my qemu-system command).
>
> Then, on the CLI VM, I installed LXDE, xorg, Libreoffice, Chromium and
> Midori. I devoted 256MB of swap space on the drive.
>
> Here are the results...
>
> Nobody's going to be watching videos on this thing, or browsing
> websites with a lot of graphics. It swaps, and the swapping chokes off
> the CPU.
>
> Nobody's going to use Chromium on this machine. Chromium just uses too
> much RAM.
>
> However, using Midori, and setting Midori's web page to
> http://www.troubleshooters.com, a very fast loading page, it took only
> 8 seconds between clicking Midori on the LXDE menu and viewing
> Troubleshooters.Com's main page. Better yet, once Midori is running,
> accessing other mostly, but not completely, text based
> Troubleshooters.Com content is less than 1 second latency.
>
> My study show that with this 128MB machine I can easily use LibreOffice
> to write simple documents, with no annoying delays or latencies.
>
> I switched the qemu-system command to use 256MB of RAM, and was able to
> use Chromium to play videos, at least low rez ones.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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