Btw a really good lightwieght browser is called arora

Sudo apt-get install arora

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You could also check if installing"preload" will help (or make it worse).

Though i agree with what has been said: P4 with 512 of RAM is anything but low resources. Running libre-office and firefox at the same time is the problem.
That said: on my low spec machines i use netsurf if i need comfort and else dillo or lynx. With 512 of RAM i would use iceweasel and then use either libre office _or_ iceweasel, not both at the same time. I would also disable services i don't use (cups and such) and apps which i don't use (wicd, conky, display manager like slim/lightdm/gdm. If the few MB you safe by that count compared to the 150MB iceweasel uses right after starting it? Good question.

Well: Truth to be told, i wouldn't use an office suite in the first place. It's crap.

Btw do you know any flash player alternatives because whenever I open any page with flash content that is when is starts to slow down my computer

Apropos to the conversation about speed above:


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[...] the main priority when I started constructing the [Chromebook] operating system was the need for speed - to create a super-fast operating system.

[...] The solution? Move the entire desktop operating system into RAM. By moving the entire operating system into RAM, that immediately took off the table the largest performance bottlenecks in the operating system: File I/O.

This is the idea behind the"toram" option for our LiveCD/USB and for our Frugal installs. What's more, (assuming Chromebook doesn't use aufs and squashfs) we probably use significantly less RAM than Chromebook. OTOH, Chromebook is probably faster. It's the classic trade off between size and speed.

When I got to the first paragraph quoted above, I started thinking about sending the article to antiC and suggesting we might want to consider following in their footsteps. Turns out, we don't need to because we already have the main speedup mechanism (do it all in RAM) built into antiX.

Give FreeOffice a try, it is much less resource hungry and faster than LibreOffice. There are some disadvantages though: it is not open source software and you have to register to use it.

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or try Abiword (for text) and gnumeric (for spreadsheets). But this case the compatibility with MS Office and odt formats is considerable worse. Also it lacks more features.

FreeOffice Textmaker needs around 36 MB RAM on my machine. Abiword slightly less.

Antix also only finds liek 480 mb of ram last time I checked so is that part of the cause.

32 MB RAM is probably used for your integrated graphics. If you actually use a dedicated graphic card, check the BIOS settings to turn this feature off.

Wow i just tried to update the kernal to 3.7.5 it works a lot better.

I have to say that my best result so far, has been with the 3.7.1 antix3 kernel. not much better than the 3.7.5, but a tiny bit

There is a 3.7.8 antiX kernel available in the repos.

How do I upgrade the 3.7.5 kernal to 3.7.8

fenrin wrote:

Antix also only finds liek 480 mb of ram last time I checked so is that part of the cause.

32 MB RAM is probably used for your integrated graphics. If you actually use a dedicated graphic card, check the BIOS settings to turn this feature off.

No. The 32 MB is space reserved for use by the *kernel*. You can see how much there is by doing : The Linux kernel has a lot of wonderful attributes but it is not magical. It needs to use RAM in order to do all the wonderful things it does. For example, it needs to reserve space for loadable kernel modules.


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is a pdf writeup from 2006 which explains why the kernel code takes up only 6% of the spaced reserved by the kernel.

TL;DR; the antiX Linux kernel needs about 30 Meg for code and data.

How do I upgrade the 3.7.5 kernal to 3.7.8

Read and see.

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