Re: [orca-list] distribution for netbook

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

On 12/12/11 05:44, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:24:08AM EST, Justin Harford wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I am a current mac user looking to try linux out. I purchased a netbook aspire 1 and installed vinux on it, 
> > but find that it is quite slow. Now of course my computer has only 1 gb of ram on it, which means that I 
> > certainly can't run 100 processes on it all at once like on my macbook which has 4 gb, but I cannot even open 
> > the folder with my music on it without the machine essentially freezing up. If I wait a good 10 minutes or 
> > so, I think it will load my songs then, but even for 1 gb, that's a bit much.
> I am guessing that your music folder is rather large. Unfortunately nautilus will take a while to show the 
> folder on any system if the folder has a lot in it. This is because the accessibility framework has to go 
> over the contents of the folder and create accessibility objects for every folder and file that nautilus 
> intends to show graphically.

Hi Luke,
Is there another good option for the file browser?
Midnight commander should be accessible as Guess?
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.