Re: [orca-list] Mini PCs with linux?



Hi Chris and Kyle,

Thanks for the info.
will contact you again when i have decided what to do.

Greetings,
Simon


Am 27.10.2017 um 19:09 schrieb Storm Dragon:
Howdy,
I am using ratpoison on mine, it doesn't have all the fancy GUI stuff like panels and what not, but it is lightning fast and leaves a lot of resources open for the stuff you need to get done. Libre office is installed and works well when I use it.

I'm running an Odroid XU4 with 8 cores and 2GB of ram. My GUI browser is Seamonkey only because it seems to perform better with fewer slow downs that Firefox. That is interesting if only because Seamonkey includes thunderbird and chatzilla all in the same program, so you'd think it would be slower and use more resources than stand alone Firefox.

I tend to use a more CLI approach to computing, but I do know my way around the GUI, and Pidgin works well, as does gnome-terminal and pretty much anything else. With my setup running at full steam, this is how my memory situation looks:

             total        used        free      shared  buff/cache available Mem:           1.9G        844M         83M         44M 1.0G        1.0G
Swap:            0B          0B          0B

You may notice that there is no swap. I have heard that sap is bad for the eMMC chips, so I only turn it on when compiling something that may cause it to run out of memory like Mumble. Speaking of which, since I am blind and don't really need certain features Mumble has to offer, like overlay, I install the mumble-snapshot-minimal package from the AUR. It seems a bit snappier when navigating it. It is also quite a bit more accessible than the QT4 version available from the official repositories.

When building packages from the AUR, sometimes you will need to edit the PKGBUILD and change the architecture  to include armv7h. I made an alias to make it easier, so all I have to do is run cower -d package name, cd to the created directory and type abuild. Here, for the sake of completeness, is the alias:

alias abuild='sed -i '\''s/^arch=(.*)$/arch=("armv7h" "i686" "x86_64")/'\'' PKGBUILD && makepkg -cris'

Of course any of us who run ARM machines will be glad to help if you need it. Look at the bottom of this message at signature info for ways to get in touch.

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 09:51:33PM -0400, Kyle wrote:
I use the MATE desktop on mine, and it works quite well for most things. Firefox has its painfully slow moments, but everything else works. That said, Firefox had its painfully slow moments on many of the same sites back when I was still using the x86_64 beasty that builds TalkingArch as well, so I don't think much has changed. On the slowest sites, Chromium with ChromeVox seems to run much faster.
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