[colug-432] Determine Resource Usage

[Don]

Great point Eric.  Lots of people out there don't want to deal with the 6
months upgrade cycle and so a long term support edition might work better
for them.  In terms of resources, I thought each web site gave an
indication of what resources would be needed for each distro.  Imagine a
Google search would offer some suggestions too.

I am trying to not be on the 6 months cycle by trying out Manjaro Linux.
 Pretty user friendly and they are a rolling release and my two upgrades so
far have been successful with no glitches.

I also like that in my Gnome 3.10 I found under the Gnome Tweaks setting a
way to add a weather indicator to my panel and linked it to the Bolton
Field weather station.  Working fine.   Since I can't thank Gnome directly,
or could not find a way, thanks to the minds that created that tweak
feature to make improvements and they grow into their Gnome 3 vision.

Don Baun




On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Eric Floehr <eric at intellovations.com>wrote:

> Note that the other difference between Linux Mint 13 and 16 besides
> resource use is that 13 will be supported until April 2017[1] while 16 will
> only be supported until July of this year.
>
> Don't know how long they will be using the laptop, or how much upgrading
> they will want or need to do, but possibly a consideration.
>
>
> [1] http://www.linuxmint.com/oldreleases.php
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:30 PM, tom <thomas.w.cranston at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How do I determine how much resources a Distro uses. Posted online?
>> Determine from command line?
>>
>> I am installing Linux on an old laptop for someone. They asked for
>> LinuxMInt 13 Maya as they think it will use less resources than
>> LinuxMint 16. I want to verify that. I think 16 would be better if it
>> does not hog a lot more resources.
>>
>> I did install LinuxMint16xfce, but seemed rather limited.
>>
>> Tom
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