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Offline vger7

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Very Impressed!
« on: July 04, 2011, 12:33:48 PM »
I've been using Linux Mint since Mint 7.
I currently have Mint 10 (gnome) installed on an i5,
and Mint 10 LXDE installed on an older AMD machine.

I knew that there are many people having problems with the newest
version, but when the LXDE rc came out I couldn't resist trying it.

It failed to load the desktop and left me at the command line.
It seems to be a problem with the version of Xorg and the drivers
packaged is this latest spin.
It tried it on 3 desktops and 1 laptop.
Only on the i5 did it start up properly.

Needless to say I was disappointed, especially since LXDE is
targeted mainly for older/low spec machines.

Anyway, having read that PCLOS has very good hardware support,
I thought I'd gave the latest LXDE release a spin.

Wow!
Very impressive. Nice, clean and professional.
A lot of detail when into this.
It works on ALL 4 machines and detected all my hardware correctly.

I think I have the perfect home for it on 1 machine, and possibly the
laptop as well.

Just 1 question...
What is the memory usage after a cold boot?
I'm showing 140m with Mint 10 LXDE.
Mint 8 LXDE was about 117m.

Thanks!

And BTW, I believe this is the best implementation
of LXDE that I've seem.
Excellent Job!




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Re: Very Impressed!
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2011, 01:53:19 PM »
Welcome vger7 I'm an LXDE user myself and this is the best implementation you can get
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Re: Very Impressed!
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2011, 02:38:58 PM »
Hi vger7 - welcome to the forum and the stable world of PCLinuxOS.

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Wow!
Very impressive. Nice, clean and professional.

Yes, Neal has done a superb job with it.
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Re: Very Impressed!
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2011, 03:02:08 PM »
Hello vger7 and welcome!

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Re: Very Impressed!
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2011, 03:08:52 PM »
Welcome to the forum vger7 enjoy Your time here.

I will answer Your question with a question. Do You really care that much about ram usage when the price is "no hardware problems"?

Regards :).

Andy
« Last Edit: July 04, 2011, 03:13:22 PM by AndrzejL »
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Offline Neal ManBear

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Re: Very Impressed!
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2011, 03:11:29 PM »
Thank you, vger7.

To see your memory usage, open lxterminal and enter the command top.

Or use free -m.
« Last Edit: July 04, 2011, 03:32:06 PM by Neal »
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Re: Very Impressed!
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2011, 03:58:59 PM »
Also -
Menu > More Applications > Monitoring > Simple Current Systeminfo  >>> Display memory usage will display ongoing memory usage.
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Re: Very Impressed!
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2011, 04:26:11 PM »
Thanks one and all for the welcome  ;D

Andy,
Yes I do care about memory usage.
The machine I have in mind has only 768m of ram.
My young grandson uses it and usually has firefox,
abiword and tuxpaint all running at the same time.
The less memory the system is using,
the more he has available for running apps.
He has some disabilities and can get very frustrated
at times.

Neal,
You've done a really great job here!
(I thought I saw 97m when I started to post,
but it's gone now).
In any-case, it looks like I'm gonna do a fresh install next Saturday.

Well folks, it's time for me to get the ribs prepped and fire
up the coals.

Thanx a bunch and
have a great 4th everyone!


 


« Last Edit: July 04, 2011, 04:39:43 PM by Neal »
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Re: Very Impressed!
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2011, 09:44:32 PM »
Conky ... and welcome to the community, vger7.

If it comes from Neal, you can be sure of the quality ... just top-notch.   ;)
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Re: Very Impressed!
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2011, 09:52:16 PM »
Quote from: Archie on July 04, 2011, 09:44:32 PM
Conky ... and welcome to the community, vger7.

If it comes from Neal, you can be sure of the quality ... just top-notch.   ;)

Thank you, Archie. I'm building on Texstar's excellent work. :)
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Re: Very Impressed!
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2011, 10:09:37 PM »
vger7, well it's nice to see you here! I think you and your grandson will be very happy using the PCLinuxOS LXDE edition. There is some great work going on around here and you will enjoy having a rolling release. You might want to ask about some games for your grandson so he does not get bored with pbskids.org. I am very glad you gave the LXDE edition a try and I am real happy all your hardware is working well.
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Re: Very Impressed!
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2011, 03:32:07 AM »
Quote from: Neal on July 04, 2011, 09:52:16 PM
Quote from: Archie on July 04, 2011, 09:44:32 PM
Conky ... and welcome to the community, vger7.

If it comes from Neal, you can be sure of the quality ... just top-notch.   ;)

Thank you, Archie. I'm building on Texstar's excellent work. :)

It's based on a good work but without the right knowledge and attitude... the iso wouldn't be half this good. Trust me I know...

Andy
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« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2011, 04:07:40 AM »
 :) Thank you, Andy.
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Re: Very Impressed!
« Reply #13 on: July 05, 2011, 04:21:45 AM »
Welcome Aboard vger7,

Enjoy  :)
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Re: Very Impressed!
« Reply #14 on: July 05, 2011, 06:59:09 AM »
Quote from: vger7 on July 04, 2011, 04:26:11 PM
Yes I do care about memory usage.
The machine I have in mind has only 768m of ram.
The same here.
I just opened a 500 KB file with LibreOffice and a 1.6 MB jpg file with GIMP. I can freely manipulate the document, the picture and post here by Chromium. No inconvenience. :)

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