Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

[Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr>]

Dne, 27. 02. 2011 21:05:11 je Patrick Bartek napisal(a):
> Having tired of Fedora's short support life (13 months)--I've been  
> using it since FC3, but have only been upgrading every 3rd release  
> since 6--and wanting a distro where longevity and stability are  
> paramount, and SELinux is an option, not the default, I've settled on  
> Debian 6.  However, my custom-built system is mostly 5 year old  
> hardware, and I want to get away from today's CPU-cycle eating,  
> eye-candy, desktop environments, the features of which are mostly  
> wasted on me, and go with the efficiency of a pure window manager set  
> up.  That is, no GNOME, KDE, etc. installed at all.  I've chosen  
> Openbox as the window manager as it seems to offer an efficient  
> balance between features and RAM usage.
>
> VirtualBox tests with Debian 6 RC2 32-bit look good.
>
> My system:
>
> Abit KN9 motherboard, built-in audio and ethernet
> AMD Athlon64 X2 2.9 GHZ
> EVGA GeForce 8400GS graphics card, fanless (by design)
> 4GB RAM
> 160GB SATA HD
> Pioneer DVR-112D IDE DVD/CD Writer
>
> Any opinions, suggestions or pitfalls?
>
> I'll dual boot keeping Fedora 12 currently on the system as a  
> fallback.
>
> Thanks.
>
> B

I run Squeeze with stock GNOME on a somewhat inferior machine with only  
half your RAM, and it's quite snappy. I've never seen it swap to disk,  
although there are 4-5 concurrent GNOME sessions open all the time, and  
a squid3 server with a 9GB on-disk cache is running. Of course,  
everything depends on your intended usage, but there should generally  
be no pitfalls to speak of... ;)

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