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. -- Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca>
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? mark
On Thu, November 2, 2017 1:03 pm, 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.And you are talking about 8 years old system on what would be called decent hardware about the same 8 years back, right? Valeri> > -- > Yves Bellefeuille > <yan at storm.ca> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote:> And you are talking about 8 years old system on what would be called > decent hardware about the same 8 years back, right?The hardware is 6 years old and, at the time, Tech Report called it "the best netbook we've ever tested". So it was quite good (for a netbook) at the time. Everything depends on the OP's intended use, of course. I just wanted to disagree that you need better hardware for Linux than for Windows, or at least for CentOS 6 than Windows 7. -- Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca>
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) -----------------------------