Subj : Re: Stripped down Debian dist
To   : Arelor
From : Vk3jed
Date : Mon Aug 19 2019 06:43 pm

-=> On 08-18-19 06:39, Arelor wrote to All <=-

Ar> That said, keep in mind that what usually trashes system resources are
Ar> the applications you are runnig. Oftentimes the problem is that a
Ar> modern up-to-date browser or office suite you MUST use wants to eat
Ar> more RAM than you have. You are not fixing that by switching
Ar> distributions or operating systems.


Yeah, I've seen this on Lubuntu.  If I load up Thunderbird or Firefox, the
machine slows to a crawl, but if I use lightweight software like SynTerm and
Multimail, it runs really well.  Makes a nice BBS terminal machine. :)


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