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Re: "Debian installation tailored specifically toward the needs of an older laptop."

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____/ Sneaky Weasel on Friday 02 Sep 2011 04:51 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Homer on Friday 02 Sep 2011 03:08 : \____
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>>> Verily I say unto thee that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>
>>>> LXDE, based on benchmarks I saw, is not light enough.
>>>
>>> Light enough for what?
>>>
>>> Which benchmarks?
>>> http://www.phoronix.com/data/img/results/linux_desktop_vitals/5.png
>>>
>>> LXDE is just 200 thousand SLOC (including 40 thousand for Openbox):
>>> https://www.ohloh.net/p/lxde
>>> https://www.ohloh.net/p/openbox
>>>
>>> Compare that with Gnome @ 8.5 million (including 0.5 million for
>>> Gtk): https://www.ohloh.net/p/gnome
>>> https://www.ohloh.net/p/gtk
>>>
>>> KDE @ 5 million (including 3 million for Qt):
>>> https://www.ohloh.net/p/kde
>>> https://www.ohloh.net/p/qt
>>>
>>> Although the KDE site itself claims the actual SLOC is 6 million even
>>> without Qt:
>>> http://www.kde.org/presspage
>>>
>>> Windows 7 is apparently 50 million SLOC (various sources), although
>>> what proprotion of that is the actual DE I have no idea. Most of it,
>>> probably, given that Windows doesn't really include much
>>> out-of-the-box.
>>>
>>> Of course if LXDE is still too heavy for you there's always tinywm,
>>> at just 56 SLOC and 5KB compiled. No that's not a typo ... 56 lines.
>>> http://incise.org/not-so-tiny-window-managers.html
>>
>> I must be thinking of xfce benchmarks. BTW, KDE4 runs OK for me on
>> 5125MB of RAM, without graphics acceleration. 4.7 should be even
>> faster.
>>
>> - --
>> ~~ Best of wishes
>>
>> Dr. Roy S. Schestowitz (Ph.D. Medical Biophysics), Imaging Researcher
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> Linux runs better on half than RAM than Windows with twice the RAM.

I guess it depends which /version/ of Windows. If Vista/Vista7, then
definitely. Windows 98 was not so fat.

- -- 
		~~ Best of wishes

Dr. Roy S. Schestowitz (Ph.D. Medical Biophysics), Imaging Researcher
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