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Any comments on dev work on older laptops with lightweight Linux distros? I have a IBM T23 Thinkpad with 384MB of memory. I took Arch for a spin and was happy

by tom_b 16y ago

Any comments on dev work on older laptops with lightweight Linux distros? I have a IBM T23 Thinkpad with 384MB of memory. I took Arch for a spin and was happy for awhile, recently made a move to Xubuntu, but neither have been exactly the right thing. I do a little emacs/slime/lisp hacking with this setup, a little Ruby, etc. Works OK, but not great. Xubuntu was a great install, up-and-running with no config needed experience.

kunley 16y ago
Even if you switch off the bloats like Gnome or Kde, I guess the most resource hungry stuff is still your web browser which you inevitably use. Firefox is not lightweight anymore. I wonder what would it be if you used Google Chrome in your setup.
silentbicycle 16y ago
FWIW I have OpenBSD running a similar setup on a T41 and have been quite happy with it.