On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:09:04PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > > Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at 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 -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) -----------------------------