System Specs Super Thread

Originally Posted by smeezekitty That was basically firefox with 10 tabs and a few things like calc and notepad.

Are there any applets or anything running "within" those tabs? And surely Calculator and Notepad don't use any CPU when you're not using them...?

Originally Posted by MrCode Are there any applets or anything running "within" those tabs? And surely Calculator and Notepad don't use any CPU when you're not using them...?

I have:
Google images, ohms law calculator, linuxquestions, electronic schematic, online store, Google images, Wikipedia, picture.

Windows=72% idle, debian is 90%.

700 mhz AMD Duron, 128+256 MB RAM, 20+80+160 GB IDE HHD`s, DVD+RW, geforce 5200FX, onboard sound, Realtek PCI NIC.
Running Slackware: fluxbox or dwm (now), dillo, mocp, mc, mplayer, centerim, irssi and etc are my friends =) Tho needs a java-script browser (Opera) for some sites and webmail.

Smeeze and Mr. Bisquit: Allocating swap will hog precious space on my 8GB SSD. I still have 1GB of RAM anyway and powerful enough graphics to run GNOME Shell smoothly and from the PPA. And that's with my less powerful computer (the Acer Aspire One AOA110-1545). I also have a much more powerful home-built desktop, and that's the one I posted the system specs of.

100MB would be nice.
Oh and 8 GB = Ouch: space cramp.

Kenny_Strawn, I'm using multiple OSes. There is no way I could run the G3 without swap. The partitioning scheme is different.
FreeBSD and OpenBSD require swap.
Eight gigabytes is enough space to install two operating systems. Three if you know what you are doing.

eight gigabytes is enough space to install two operating systems. Three if you know what you are doing.

good luck!

Originally Posted by Mr-Bisquit Eight gigabytes is enough space to install two operating systems. Three if you know what you are doing.

And what about additional space for documents, music, videos, ISO images, and the like? I need enough space for these, don't I? Allocating swap will only hog this precious space. I've used up all of the main partition before, especially when allocating swap.

I don't install music or videos. ISOs are temporary.

My needs are:
penetration tools, X, browser, converters, cd writing, qemu , kqemu, networking tools.
Okay.
You can put music, documents, and video on media such as usb keys or CDs.
Now you have room.
You only really need one desktop environment.
Now you have room.
You don't need a loginDM. /usr/bin startx /usr/local/bin/startx will do the job. Now you have room.
128 to 256 M swap will be all that you will need.
Now you have room.
I know that 3G is enough for a full DE of ubuntu or debian with 1G for personal space.

Whenever I do a distro install in a VM, I always use an 8GB disk image. I usually choose to partition it manually with:

• 4.0 GiB /
• 2.0 GiB /home
• 2.0 GiB swap

It's usually more than enough for a full install of any distro, and for a VM, 2 GiB of space for /home content is fine for me.

I just make one large main partition and later a swap file. If I decide I don't need swap, I can delete the file. I don't make a separate home partition because it forces me to backup my data every time I re-install or upgrade ... which is a good motivator and keeps things clean as well, because I have to decide what to keep and what to throw away. It is a bit more work, but in the end, it's for the better. It also gets rid of fragmentation.

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H I just make one large main partition and later a swap file. If I decide I don't need swap, I can delete the file. I don't make a separate home partition because it forces me to backup my data every time I re-install or upgrade ... which is a good motivator and keeps things clean as well, because I have to decide what to keep and what to throw away. It is a bit more work, but in the end, it's for the better. It also gets rid of fragmentation.

Sarcasm: Oh how very smart.

I do plenty of school work, rip plenty of CD music (about 6 albums) that I sync with my iPod, DJ using Audacity, and capture screenshots/screencasts, all of which require plenty of storage space.

Out of curiosity, if you used a thumb drive to store those files, how much space would be free? Documents are a different story.

SSD will not last as much as a contemporary HDD. Its good idea to keep read write on SSD under check.