[wplug] Lightweight Linux Kiosk

[WEBER, Lawrence]

I have had a lot of success using Linux Mint Debian (LMDE) on older PC's than you are using.  I just did a sub 1GHz single process and it runs fine.  An xcfe desktop can also speed things up.  I have found that the newer desktops like gnome 3 run very slow on older PC's.

-L. A. Weber 


-----Original Message-----
From: wplug [mailto:wplug-bounces+lawrence.weber=ansaldo-sts.us at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Martin James Gehrke
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 14:11
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] Lightweight Linux Kiosk

I don't need to check vmstat, I can hear it paging. I do plan on using gnome (no effects). I am using Ubuntu linux 14.04 default desktop install.

Kiosk I am going to try out
Tiny Core Linux
Porteus
WebKiosk

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Pat Barron <pat at lectroid.com> wrote:

> What distro are you using, and what display manager?  Can you use 
> something like "vmstat" to see if it's paging, or what it's spending 
> it's time doing?
>
> With just 1GB, I would expect GNOME to be slow - it might help a bit 
> (with the graphics performance too) if you used the GNOME Classic 
> session, rather than the default.
>
> --Pat.
>
>
> On 10/16/2014 1:02 PM, Martin James Gehrke wrote:
>
>> I am trying to resurrect one of the old laptops I have for my kids to 
>> play pbskids games.
>>
>> The laptop definitely isn't new but it is respectable.
>>
>> Dell Inpsiron e1405
>> Core 2 Duo T5600 @ 1.83GHz
>> 1GB of RAM (can go to 4 but I'd rather not spend money on a ancient
>> laptop)
>>
>>
>> Besides the usual wireless snafu, the thing is just dog slow. It 
>> crawls when doing more than a single application. The graphics are 
>> slow. I could put on a different display manager.
>>
>> Thoughts?
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