Hi All,
I want to test LMDE but I don't have a spare machine and there are some tests that need a real machine (not a virtual one). So if you've ever tried the following things, could you let me know the answers? Thank you.
1. How much memory does LMDE use?
2. Can the latest VirtualBox from virtualbox.org be installed on LMDE?
3. Can we use the Elementary theme?
4. Can we use dockbarx?
5. Does the broadcom wireless NIC work?
6. Does it support dual monitor mode?
7. Can we install nautilus elementary there?
8. Do you feel it's faster than Ubuntu 10.10?
Thanks a lot.
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Re: Basic questions
hi,
i will answer a few, others wiil come with more
1- mine in a fresh install ~200MiB; now i loaded it up with some services and goes around 300MiB;
3 and 4- they are in Hadret's repo http://hadret.rootnode.net/
5- follow this how-to http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=57056
7- not anymore Hadret moved his nautilus-elementary pkg to experimental, so basically atm it's a no-go)
i will answer a few, others wiil come with more
1- mine in a fresh install ~200MiB; now i loaded it up with some services and goes around 300MiB;
3 and 4- they are in Hadret's repo http://hadret.rootnode.net/
5- follow this how-to http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=57056
7- not anymore Hadret moved his nautilus-elementary pkg to experimental, so basically atm it's a no-go)
Re: Basic questions
hehe you lucky
i never managed to get it so low
how it look likes in a normal day
i never managed to get it so low
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amadeu@inspiron1545-laptop ~ $ top
top - 12:41:36 up 3:09, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.06
Tasks: 193 total, 2 running, 190 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 7.0%us, 4.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 88.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3077336k total, 1707920k used, 1369416k free, 127468k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 928492k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
15047 root 20 0 90164 41m 19m S 8 1.4 7:10.79 Xorg
17070 amadeu 20 0 471m 217m 30m R 6 7.2 11:22.75 firefox-bin
15194 amadeu 20 0 83192 21m 8132 S 3 0.7 1:07.21 compiz
15523 amadeu 20 0 95864 18m 4284 S 2 0.6 2:14.56 conky
15387 amadeu 20 0 96820 20m 12m S 2 0.7 1:52.85 python
17174 amadeu 20 0 98.5m 28m 15m S 2 1.0 2:08.34 plugin-containe
5359 amadeu 20 0 94252 13m 10m S 1 0.5 0:01.45 gnome-terminal
1546 couchdb 20 0 64072 8528 3256 S 0 0.3 0:14.52 beam.smp
1566 root 20 0 15932 3928 3372 S 0 0.1 0:01.86 NetworkManager
2160 root 20 0 3524 1172 1020 S 0 0.0 0:00.65 hald-addon-stor
5392 amadeu 20 0 2464 1224 896 R 0 0.0 0:00.36 top
15183 amadeu 20 0 256m 18m 14m S 0 0.6 0:05.35 gnome-panel
15204 amadeu 20 0 89784 10m 7684 S 0 0.3 0:13.03 avant-window-na
15385 amadeu 20 0 83792 11m 9240 S 0 0.4 0:19.45 awn-applet
1 root 20 0 2032 704 612 S 0 0.0 0:01.14 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.03 migration/0
Re: Basic questions
my guess? ikey diabled mintupdate and zerozero is using the 64 bit version
before I started messing with compit, awn etc again I idled around 95-100 with hardly anything in autostart and lots of services disabled.....
OH! and zerozero is using top - ikey probably htop - my numbers are from htop too
before I started messing with compit, awn etc again I idled around 95-100 with hardly anything in autostart and lots of services disabled.....
OH! and zerozero is using top - ikey probably htop - my numbers are from htop too
Re: Basic questions
I can't answer any of the questions except about memory usage. And thanks for the tip about htop, I just installed it. It shows I have 407mb of 4gb in use. Part of that of course is firefox, part of it is iceowl (calendar), part of it appears to be various NFS things (portmap and statd) and nautilus and I have 2 terminals open.
Edit: Forgot to add, running lmde 64bit.
Edit: Forgot to add, running lmde 64bit.
Re: Basic questions
Call me crazy, but I just spent some time installing Windows XP in a Virtualbox Virtual Macine "on top" of LMDE...dxxvi wrote: 2. Can the latest VirtualBox from virtualbox.org be installed on LMDE?
- "What part of that is crazy?", you might ask...
Well I did it on my LMDE powered 1,6GHz Intel Atom N270 Netbook! (Asus 1000HE)
- Why? Because I could... (and I wanted to try some stuff before a "teaching tour" in Scandinavia I'm doing in two weeks).
And besides the fact that I get the speed I can expect to get out of an adventure like mine, IT is working just fine.
You do have to either download it directly from Virtualbox's website or add their repositories manually though if you want the latest version (think it is 4.0.2 now).
Edit: My install of LMDE on this netbook uses about 130MB of RAM when idle...
Re: Basic questions
I'll answer the questions to my point of view just to contribute.
1. At the moment 1.1 GiB with several programs and ssh sessions going. (Firefox, Chromium, Thunderbird, connected to 3 SSH servers, 1 FTP server with FileZilla, and I'm also running compiz and xplanetFX. Not to mention mediatomb and every other daemon or background process running.). Sorry, I don't feel like closing everything to give a valid reading. This is all on a single-core 64-bit AMD processor btw. I don't know how the crappiness of my processor affects my RAM usage.
2. I assume it can. I would be surprised if it didn't.
3. If it's a valid GNOME theme you can run it. If it's a theme for KDE or some other environment you will have to install KDE or whatever other environment you are using.
4. I haven't done it myself but others have told me they can.
5. Someone else already posted about this in this thread, no need for me to repeat.
6. Whatever support GNOME has for dual-monitors on other distros should also apply to LMDE.
7. Not sure.
8. By far. SOOOOOOO much faster. I love LMDE. Probably the best distro to put on a standard Desktop computer that I've ever seen.
1. At the moment 1.1 GiB with several programs and ssh sessions going. (Firefox, Chromium, Thunderbird, connected to 3 SSH servers, 1 FTP server with FileZilla, and I'm also running compiz and xplanetFX. Not to mention mediatomb and every other daemon or background process running.). Sorry, I don't feel like closing everything to give a valid reading. This is all on a single-core 64-bit AMD processor btw. I don't know how the crappiness of my processor affects my RAM usage.
2. I assume it can. I would be surprised if it didn't.
3. If it's a valid GNOME theme you can run it. If it's a theme for KDE or some other environment you will have to install KDE or whatever other environment you are using.
4. I haven't done it myself but others have told me they can.
5. Someone else already posted about this in this thread, no need for me to repeat.
6. Whatever support GNOME has for dual-monitors on other distros should also apply to LMDE.
7. Not sure.
8. By far. SOOOOOOO much faster. I love LMDE. Probably the best distro to put on a standard Desktop computer that I've ever seen.