On Lu, 14 nov 11, 18:00:34, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > > I set up a similar machine, with 256MB ram, recently and when I tried > LXDE and used iceweasel with more than one tab, I remember it seemed to > be swapping to disk (some? a lot? can't remember, but enough to make > me change the de/wm). So I replaced lxde with icewm which seemed > better, though I haven't really tested things thoroughly. Didn't you > have any swapping issues with LXDE and regular web browsing? (If not, > are there any tricks you might suggest?) I said LXDE is usable not Iceweasel :p In squeeze Chromium has better support for newer technologies and *might* be lighter on resources. Best if you can just avoid the heavy-weight browsers and stick to something like Midori, Kazehakase, etc. For office use avoid OpenOffice.org and try to stick with Abiword and Gnumeric. For e-mail Claws Mail and Sylpheed are excelent. Hope this helps, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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