On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Pete Orrall wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:17 PM, tom arnall <kloro2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following > > purposes. > <snip> > > Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unhappy with the speed of > > it. > > > > Any info/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. > > I run Debian Wheezy with a stock kernel on my aging Toshiba Tecra A8. > It has a 1.7GHz Core Duo with 2GB of RAM. With xfce performance is > acceptable, ie much better than heavy-weight DEs like KDE or GNOME but > still leaves some room for improvement. Instead, I use openbox and > there is a noticeable improvement in speed and resource usage. It > took me a little while to adjust to such a minimal environment > especially when coming from GNOME or even xfce but now I much prefer > it, even on faster systems.
I'll trump that ;-) EeePC 900 (900MHz Celeron M, 1GB RAM, 4GB & 16GB drives): Wheezy/LXDE 32-bit, standard install, Laptop option, ext2 filesystem. Replaced Eeebuntu 3.0 that I put on it 3 or 4 years ago. Absolutely no install problems. Runs great. Better than Eeebuntu: seems smoother, snappier. Certainly is more contemporary. 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/20140127084132.21adb...@debian7.boseck208.net
