--- On Mon, 2/28/11, Klistvud <quotati...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote: > Dne, 27. 02. 2011 21:05:11 je Patrick > Bartek napisal(a): > > Having tired of Fedora's short support life (13 > months)--I've been using it since FC3, but have only been > upgrading every 3rd release since 6--and wanting a distro > where longevity and stability are paramount, and SELinux is > an option, not the default, I've settled on Debian 6. > However, my custom-built system is mostly 5 year old > hardware, and I want to get away from today's CPU-cycle > eating, eye-candy, desktop environments, the features of > which are mostly wasted on me, and go with the efficiency of > a pure window manager set up. That is, no GNOME, KDE, > etc. installed at all. I've chosen Openbox as the > window manager as it seems to offer an efficient balance > between features and RAM usage. > > > > VirtualBox tests with Debian 6 RC2 32-bit look good. > > > > My system: > > > > Abit KN9 motherboard, built-in audio and ethernet > > AMD Athlon64 X2 2.9 GHZ > > EVGA GeForce 8400GS graphics card, fanless (by > design) > > 4GB RAM > > 160GB SATA HD > > Pioneer DVR-112D IDE DVD/CD Writer > > > > Any opinions, suggestions or pitfalls? > > > > I'll dual boot keeping Fedora 12 currently on the > system as a fallback. > > > > Thanks. > > > > B > > I run Squeeze with stock GNOME on a somewhat inferior > machine with only half your RAM, and it's quite snappy. I've > never seen it swap to disk, although there are 4-5 > concurrent GNOME sessions open all the time, and a squid3 > server with a 9GB on-disk cache is running. Of course, > everything depends on your intended usage, but there should > generally be no pitfalls to speak of... ;)
My reasons for abandoning the desktop environment and going pure Openbox is more philosophical than practical. My current Fedora 12 64-bit system with GNOME runs just fine even with the CPU running most of the time at 1/3rd speed. It's just that I abhor the waste of "cool" features that serve no purpose other than to impress. Wow! Cooool! At least, with Linux I have a choice. If I were running Windows or OSX . . . B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/144817.2347...@web31001.mail.mud.yahoo.com
