[wellylug] Linux for portable / laptop

[Nathan Bentley]

Hi all.

Went with WattOS for this. It's not exactly pretty but HOLY CRAP it boots fast. 20 or so seconds and its up and running on a desktop with no grinding like I was starting to get with the windows system prior.

I haven't worked out what its battery economy is like, I suspect I need to get some drivers for the device itself so I can turn off the wireless via the button on the machine, since that will be draining as long as its on.

Abiword was already plugged in. I'll give it a second chance.

Thanks for the ideas earlier. 



-----Original Message-----
From: wellylug-bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz [mailto:wellylug-bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of Stephen
Sent: Thursday, 30 June 2011 8:20 a.m.
To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Linux for portable / laptop

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:14:14 +0100
Colin Templeman <wellylug at biker.geek.nz> wrote:

> on 28/06/2011 23:52 Stephen Judd said:
> 
> > For the record, I checked last night, and my minimal Debian Gnome
> > install clocks in at about 250MB memory used, vs Linux Mint at about
> > 450 MB.
> 
> Presumably the gnome-based Mint?  I used free to check LXDE Mint 9
> and it uses 136MB 

Indeed. No question that Gnome itself is not exactly lightweight these
days.


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