On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 06:58:43 -0400 Fungi4All <fungil...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> From: nemomm...@gmail.com > > I"m going to wait about a week to 10 days after Stretch"s release > as Stable before installing while checking this list for any problems. > If all proves well, then clean, dual-boot install. > > So you fear something may break and in a week of 10 days there will > be a new installer, Debian9.1 or do you feel that all of us running > stretch for a long while we are full of problems and the stable > release will fix them? No. I don't expect any major problems, but it's the little gotchas that get ya'. Particularly since I'm going to be doing a customized, "non-standard" install. I've been running several installs of Stretch FC3 (duly dist-upgraded) in VirtualBox for testing. No problems so far: installing, switching to new inits, dist-upgrades, etc. I just want to check out what's happening with everyone else, etc. > I just did an update and nothing has changed since yesterday, and I am > so bored I am switching to testing, Enough with this stable stuff :) So, you WANT problems? Install Unstable. Or Windows 10. ;-) > I"ll start with a terminal-only system and build up to X and a window > manager only (Openbox) set up. I like my systems lean and mean with as > little cruft as possible. Full GUI environments are a waste of CPU > cycles as far as I"m concerned, I don"t care how "cool" they look. > > When I added a task/app bar and a filemanager on openbox the resource > use was not that far off lxde, which surprised me a bit. On my custom (now 5 years old) Wheezy/Openbox install with LXpanel, three virtual terminals and xfe filemanager compared to a typical LXDE environment similarly config'd, there was a BIG difference in RAM usage. Response was noticably slower, too, but not to the point of being too annoying. Like menus took a split second longer to pop up. FYI: When you replied to my original post, your mail client failed to quote properly or at all. Check to see if quoting is turned on. B
