On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:09:04PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
Not intending to contradict (if that ends up as pain, it will be your pain anyway ;-) but I would go higher with specs if you intend to use Linux on it. Linux tends to grow its demands for resources pretty much exponentially (same as Windows does, only from lower starting point).
On my Acer Aspire One 522 (two-core AMD C-50 1.0 GHz processor with 2 GB of RAM), CentOS 6 is noticeably smoother than Windows 7. Windows uses the battery more efficiently, however.
The reql question is what the o/p wants the system *for*. As I mentioned, I have my '09 HP Netbook (1101?), and I just loaded CentOS 6 i386 on it, and it runs acceptably. Now, once I switch the WM from *bleah* Gnome to KDE, or maybe something lighter, I'll be fine... but I only use it while traveling, for mail and browsing.
What *are* you going to be doing with it?
mostly portable email and browsing. if it is good enough it'll probably have dev tools on it too for the uncommon occasions when I need to build something. If it is good enough I may find other thiings to do with it, but I have a reasonably powerful desktop also running C7, so many of those "other" things are taken care of there.
Fred