[wplug] Lightweight Linux Kiosk

Martin James Gehrke martin at teamgehrke.com
Thu Oct 16 17:14:42 EDT 2014


Gnome 3 ran better than Unity. once I got a lightweight window env on it
was much improved. But I appeared to be overzealous because they did not
play nice with each other.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:31 PM, WEBER, Lawrence <
lawrence.weber at ansaldo-sts.us> wrote:

> 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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