lifehacker.com — With the right know-how, a willingness to run a few terminal commands and a mind for efficiency, you can get every last bit of power from your Linux box, or get more life out of an older system. Read on for our roundup of tips that any level of Linux user can implement
Dec 14, 2007 View in Crawl 4
anthonya7Dec 16, 2007
13 days? That's nothing... s**t, I've got Fedora 8 running on a Dell Inspiron 7500 notebook (PIII 500MHz, 256BM RAM), and It's been running my LAMP server for a month straight.
stevemaxDec 17, 2007
If you have enough RAM to run everything you run, you don't want any pageouts. This is what bugs me about Windows: I may have 2GB of RAM, but right after I boot it, the swap usage will be at some tens of MBs (with over 1.7GB free RAM).Swap should be a final resource, it should be used only if your load is bigger than your RAM (or getting close to it); low swappines gets its behaviour close to this. It is good advice if your RAM is big enough for your normal usage.But yeah, it's terrible for those who use Gnome, Firefox, Blender, Photoshop under Wine etc with 128MB of RAM.
ebullitDec 20, 2007
Linux from scratch is a real good way to make a lean system.
acolyte357Jan 7, 2008
pay to much for hardware and get a crappy free os?