<p dir="ltr">Check abiword for a tiny, fast word processor.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 2, 2016 8:19 PM, "Steve Litt" <<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 18:24:41 -0500<br>
Steve Litt <<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:34:32 -0500<br>
> Boris Borisov <<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > He may meant 20GB. Puppy Linux is starting to get fat as well. No<br>
> > offense here implied. The only advantage us running from USB drive<br>
> > or memory disk and very comprehensive drivers and firmware<br>
> > collection. But if you tried latest "quirky" boot up takes forever.<br>
> ><br>
> > But I guess that is the future OS are getting fat and slow and<br>
> > thankfully hardware manufacturers are able to put 4-8 cores in chip<br>
> > for next to nothing.<br>
> ><br>
> > Slim distro building around busybox is Slitaz. ISO is 50 MB<br>
> > installed on HDD is around 320. You get desktop file manager<br>
> > browser and web-based control panel.<br>
> ><br>
> > But only my opinion.<br>
><br>
> Nobody can argue that today's Linux can run on my 1998 Pentium II<br>
> 300mhz with 16*M*B of RAM, like Win98 or 1999 Red Hat 5.1 could do.<br>
> But that sort of misses the point: My Pentium II300 cost me about $2K<br>
> in December 1998.<br>
<br>
More news...<br>
<br>
Today I used the Void no-GUI live installer CD to install Void on a<br>
Qemu VM with 128MB RAM, 4GB disk, and a single core modern speed CPU (I<br>
didn't know how to slow down the CPU in my qemu-system command).<br>
<br>
Then, on the CLI VM, I installed LXDE, xorg, Libreoffice, Chromium and<br>
Midori. I devoted 256MB of swap space on the drive.<br>
<br>
Here are the results...<br>
<br>
Nobody's going to be watching videos on this thing, or browsing<br>
websites with a lot of graphics. It swaps, and the swapping chokes off<br>
the CPU.<br>
<br>
Nobody's going to use Chromium on this machine. Chromium just uses too<br>
much RAM.<br>
<br>
However, using Midori, and setting Midori's web page to<br>
<a href="http://www.troubleshooters.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.troubleshooters.com</a>, a very fast loading page, it took only<br>
8 seconds between clicking Midori on the LXDE menu and viewing<br>
Troubleshooters.Com's main page. Better yet, once Midori is running,<br>
accessing other mostly, but not completely, text based<br>
Troubleshooters.Com content is less than 1 second latency.<br>
<br>
My study show that with this 128MB machine I can easily use LibreOffice<br>
to write simple documents, with no annoying delays or latencies.<br>
<br>
I switched the qemu-system command to use 256MB of RAM, and was able to<br>
use Chromium to play videos, at least low rez ones.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
<br>
Steve Litt<br>
February 2016 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence<br>
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