07-02-2016, 08:48 PM
Hello, torreydale![/size]Thanks for the share on alternatives for resource-challenged machines. I'll have to take a fresh look at some of them, as i haven't tried some of them before.I've found that the lighter the OS, the more it deviates from what we're used to in the Debian/Ubuntu world, and the steeper the learning curve require to adapt to their unique ways of doing things.
Take Puppy, as an example. I tried that, but I found its package manager to be too different from the 'norm' to allow me to incorporate some of the programs I need to be able to run here, and didn't want to get involved with having to re-create my own packages.
Yes, the less RAM you have, the more swap you need. When you go under 768 MB of RAM, you'd also have to consider using ZRAM.The guy who put the following together has some excellent tips - not just for Xubuntu 16.04, but for other flavors and versions as well:[color=rgb(0, 102, 33)]https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxt...ect/first-[/color][/size][/size][color=rgb(0, 102, 33)][/size]xubuntu[/color]
[/size]73 DE N4RPSRob
Take Puppy, as an example. I tried that, but I found its package manager to be too different from the 'norm' to allow me to incorporate some of the programs I need to be able to run here, and didn't want to get involved with having to re-create my own packages.
Yes, the less RAM you have, the more swap you need. When you go under 768 MB of RAM, you'd also have to consider using ZRAM.The guy who put the following together has some excellent tips - not just for Xubuntu 16.04, but for other flavors and versions as well:[color=rgb(0, 102, 33)]https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxt...ect/first-[/color][/size][/size][color=rgb(0, 102, 33)][/size]xubuntu[/color]
[/size]73 DE N4RPSRob