Debian :: Lightest / Fastest Environment For Old Computer
Mar 6, 2011Which is the lightest/fastest environment for an old computer?
AfterStep, Blackbox, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, LXDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce
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Debian :: Find The Fastest Mirros For ALL Repos?
Jan 28, 2011I've already googled and I found how to find the fastest repo counterpart. The problem is all tips I found, talk about main repo. However I am interested in finding all counterparts (for each entry)[URL]he first line originally contained the main Debian repo, but since netselect-apt found the fastest counterpart, I changed this line to mirror.But -- what about the rest? How to find the fastest counterpart repo (mirror) for each line?
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Nov 11, 2010I thought this might interest someone out there:[URL].. I used SD cards with MBR formatted as ext2 for backup. After I read these articles, I reformatted my cards with GUID Partition Table and ext4 format. Now I make my backup in half the time!
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Apr 4, 2010Any suggestions?
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Apr 13, 2011have an old system with 256mb memory running 10.10. I use this mostly to run as a host for tomcat6 and glassfishv3 and cherokee accessible from other systems on my home net. dont really need much of a desktop 4 it but am reluctant to handle ubuntu server edition until i know ubuntu better. do you think xubuntu will use up less juice than standard ubuntu ? can i retrograde my 10.10 ubuntu version to xubuntu, or will this need a full fresh install ? is there a separate forum thread 4 xubuntu ?
View 9 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Move Environment From Old Computer To New One?
Dec 22, 2010On my old computer I have Ubuntu installed with all my nessecery environment installetion
I want to install Ubuntu on my new computer.How can I store the old environment (from the old computer) and restore it in my new computer ?
Ubuntu :: Fastest Booting OS ?
Jan 3, 2010About finding the fastest booting operating system is out there.
I'm especially interested in Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Intel Moblin, and when my internet comes back tomorrow, xPud. I'm kinda freaked at Moblin though because there isn't an option to split the hard drive to account for its space, and even if there were, I'm freaked that a GRUB won't show up Ubuntu or even Windows 7
My requirements:
1. Boots up in 5-15 seconds on 1.3GHz processor/4GB RAM or within 10 seconds on a netbook which has 1.6GHz Atom and 1GB RAM
2. Has to have a good-looking window manager (so a customised Linux distro with something like Fluxbox/Blackbox is out). Something like what's in netbook designed OS's are good
3. Has to actually be able to run good on laptops that aren't netbooks, for I'm hoping to run the OS on proper laptops too
4. Can be propiertary, though open-source and free is good too and preferable
5. Has to have a GRUB so I can switch between Ubuntu/Windows 7/whatever fast-booting OS it might be or at least an easy way to switch between the 3. More preferable is that it comes as an .exe that can be installed inside Windows, like xPud
Ubuntu :: Fastest Filesystem For SSD?
Mar 19, 2011I have just got an SSD (Kingston SSDNow 100v 64Gib)It supports TRIM, and is definitely one of the better ones available.I am asserting here that the "limited number of writes" problem is a myth, so I'm not looking for an answer to that.My question is, what filesystem will help me get the best performance out of my SSD? Bear in mind SSDs excel at random access time, but sequential file performance is meh
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Sep 30, 2010The stock one seems ok but is it the best?
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Sep 8, 2010In the past I've install OS on CompactFlash and USB stick.CF was pretty quick almost as good as HD while USB was much slower.However my new box can boot a 6 in 1 card reader which uses MMC/SD/SDHC/MS/MS Pro/xD can anyone with experience of these formats advise what is the fastest to use for an OS?
View 2 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Fastest Way To Search For Strings?
Jan 29, 2010Is there a faster way to search for a file containing a given string than using grep -re "string" /
This takes a long time to search through the entire system, so I was wondering if there is a faster way. I don't know the name of the file, just that it will contain a given string.
Ubuntu :: Find Fastest Update Server Through CLI?
Apr 13, 2010The graphical package management tools like Synaptic have a nice feature where you can scan for and connect to the fastest server. I'm writing a setup script for minimal installs and would like to offer the option to scan for a fast server, does anybody know how to achieve this through the command line?
View 7 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Find Out Second Fastest Repository Server
Sep 22, 2010how to find out second fastest repository server.
I know ubuntu will choose the best server for you by ping value, but it's not give you the ping value list.
For some reason, I don't want to use the server ubuntu choose.
Are there any method/software can show the speed list of ubuntu repository servers?
Ubuntu Installation :: Easiest/fastest Way To Get All The Packages?
May 31, 2011UI figured this would be the place to ask this question. I would like to download all the repositories to my PC for those crazy times when I don't have internet and need to install a program. I guess I would be making my PC a LAN Repository. What is the easiest/fastest way to get all the packages?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHardware :: Fastest Distro / GUI For Slow Laptop
Jan 6, 2010I just receive a very thin laptop but pretty old, it has 2 hard drives or kind of hard drives... of 16 GB each, I don't know about the RAM, probably 512 Mb, maybe 1 Gb (I don't remember how to see that on windows) and an intel core duo.It's currently running a legal windows xp (I specify legal cause it's pretty rare), it's not "slow" but it could be a lot faster, it still takes a few seconds to load IE and stuffs.
I'm a mac user, I'm only using debian server version for web servers and databases so I don't know how it works with a user interface.I've heard about Archlinux, it says it's pretty fast but do you know which one is the fastest one ?
I'll be using the laptop for taking notes only, probably on google docs but it'd be cool if I could store some images and stuff without waiting 10 secs to open a new window.By the way, if you could quickly explain me how do I install the GUI and which one is fastest cause when I've installed Ubuntu, Gnome was already installed by default.Finally, there is no way to insert DVD / CDs, it's like the Mac Book Air, so I haven't installed any linux distro from a USB stick either.
Slackware :: Fastest Route To 'Dependency Hell'?
Jul 7, 2011Moderator: If this post doesnt belong here, please move it to where it belongs. I like the KDE environment but there are so many menu items that I am not interested in or do not use. For example, I use LibreOffice, not Koffice; I use only Firefox & Chrome; I dont use a PIM.There seems to be a lot of duplication to satisfy different preferences.Further, there are a bunch of environments (flukebox etc) that I am not interested in. I thought that if I removed all the stuff that is of no interest to me, that I could have a personalized, uncluttered Slackware 13.37 system that would occupy less disk space and take less time to back up.
I know that you can remove menu items without removing the underlying programs but, if I can get rid of the programs without trashing my system, that is what I would like to do. (I am assuming that I can reinstall some or all later.)
If I were a Slackware guru, I would probably install some sort of Slackware Minimal but then I would probably drive you all crazy with endless posts to this forum.So, the question is: If I use pkgtool to remove the stuff that I do not want, will I end up in Dependency issue Hell
OpenSUSE Network :: Tool To Find The Fastest Mirrors?
Nov 11, 2010Does anyone know of a tool to find the fastest mirrors for the repos? I know some distros have something called "fastest mirrors" or something equivalent. The fastest I can get updates is around 238 kB/s and normally, on other distros I get 10 times that speed.btw, like all the other distros, speedtest.net gives me an avg download speed of 43Mbs
View 9 Replies View RelatedDebian :: Cannot Add Environment Variable
Apr 27, 2015I'm trying to add 2 new environment variables (Debian . I have created a "/etc/profile.d/java.sh" file and in it I have added these lines (and just for the record, I've also tried adding those line to the profile file with the same results as explained below).
Code: Select allexport XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/local/MATLAB/MATLAB_Compiler_Runtime/v83/X11/app-defaults
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/MATLAB/MATLAB_Compiler_Runtime/v83/runtime/glnxa64:/usr/local/MATLAB/MATLAB_Compiler_Runtime/v83/bin/glnxa64:/usr/local/MATLAB/MATLAB_Compiler_Runtime/v83/sys/os/glnxa64:/usr/local/MATLAB/MATLAB_Compiler_Runtime/v85/runtime/glnxa64:/usr/local/MATLAB/MATLAB_Compiler_Runtime/v85/bin/glnxa64:/usr/local/MATLAB/MATLAB_Compiler_Runtime/v85/sys/os/glnxa64
The first variable "XAPPLRESDIR" is added just fine (I check by doing echo $XAPPLRESDIR). The second variable is not added. Here's what I discovered though, if I change the variable name to LD_LIBRARY_PATK (I change the word "path" into something else) then it works just fine... So how am I supposed to add this variable? I need it to be named just that...
General :: Windows - Fastest (and Least Number Of Steps) Way To Migrate Hard Drive Formats?
Feb 19, 2011I have an ext2 formatted disk (linux) and I need to reformat it to NTFS (windows). Problem is, I have to retain the 750 GB of data that's on the disk. What's the quickest (least number of steps) way to accomplish this? I do have a spare 1TB disk now to help with the transfer.
Background.I've been using XBMC Live for a couple of years, but with all the problems I've been having lately, I'm moving over to the Windows version. Unfortunately all of my media is stored on an ext2 formatted disk (not the same disk as the OS disk).I was thinking of loading up an Ubuntu live disk, and installing ntfs-config. Mount my secondary disk (already formatted NTFS), transfer the files, reformat the original drive, load windows and transfer the files back.
Debian :: Python 2.7 Can't See OS Environment Variables
Aug 23, 2015I'm trying to compile Ardour on jessie amd64 using the Debian source code (there's already an ardour package but I want to use different compile options). I've applied the Debian patches and have all the required dependencies installed.
Scons quits with a KeyError message from python2.7 saying that os.environ['DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS'] is not defined.
Checking with 'dpkg-archtecture -l' shows that DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS=linux, but 'print os.environ["DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS"]' in python says that name 'os' is not defined. The scons script has 'import os' at the top so it should be seeing it.
How do I make this visible to python (I'm assuming this problem is specific to the jessie python2.7 installation and not python in general)?
Debian :: Terminal In GUI Environment Not Launching
Aug 26, 2015I got a problem with the terminal in GUI Environment after i upgraded it From debian 7 to 8 "it's not launching" ....
Root Terminal is Working....
Debian Installation :: No Desktop Environment In CD 1?
Aug 12, 2015I'm sure you will laugh at me, however I do have to ask : is there a desktop environment at all in Jessie installation CD 1 , I mean the one I've downloaded here [URL].... , and to be precise this one [URL].... .
I've installed it in a virtualbox thinking that I'd see a Gnome desktop (assuming it is the default one and seeing that nothing was specified in the CD name), but there is no graphical environment at all, it boots to a console: dpkg -l finds no desktop components and there is no default display manager in /etc/X11 (of course startx only gets me another terminal, probably xterm) .
It should not be a virtualbox issue because the LXDE version there runs OK, I'm just a bit puzzled that no desktop environment at all is apparently installed even if I'm positive that I've checked that option during the installation: I've installed this CD without a network connection, but nevertheless, if the installer says "install a desktop environment" that's what I'm expecting to find...
I don't remember such an issue with Wheezy, in fact I only used CD 1 and there was indeed a Gnome desktop after installation - it's not a big deal, I'd just like to know if this is normal.
Debian Configuration :: Man-db In Chroot Ssh Environment
Aug 26, 2015I've been bashing around this for a couple of days, and could not find answer by using google. My debian 8.1.0 jessie runs perfectly fine. To perform SSH chroot jail, I issued an apt-get install makejail.
The ssh chroot environment runs great. I used makejail configuration scripts. The man pages are perfectly available from TTY login. Yet from a SSH session (chroot jailed) the man pages could not be found.
My MANPATH environment variable points at /usr/share/man
Running "mandb -c" from a SSH session as root tells:
0 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages.
0 manual pages were added.
0 stray cats were added.
0 old database entries were purged.
simply copying the contents of the /usr/share/man to /jail/usr/share/man
and running the "mandb -c" command gives lots of "dangling symlink" errors.
Perhaps the /jail directory need some dependent files, or change file permissions somewhere but I just couldn' t figure that out.
Debian :: Unable To Change Environment Variables
Dec 17, 2015I installed debian 8 on a usb drive using this guide. I used a debian 8.2 64-bit image with mate. It has all worked as I wanted it to. However recently I needed to change the PATH variable, and create another environment variable. I have not been able to do neither. What I have tryed (from google):
1. adding "export PATH=$PATH:/xxxx/" to etc/profile or to /home/user/.profile
2. adding ":/xxxx/" to a point in /etc/profile where the PATH variable is set
3. creating a script in /etc/profile.d which run "export PATH=$PATH:/xxxx/"
(where xxxx is the the location i want to add)
Debian Installation :: What Does Desktop Environment Checkbox Mean In DI
Aug 13, 2015Debian installer (if you use the DVD image) asks what desktop environment to install, and there is a checkbox there for "Debian desktop environment" which you can uncheck even if let's say some environment like KDE.
View 9 Replies View RelatedDebian Installation :: 4.0 Freezes After Environment Selections?
Jan 19, 2010I've tried this with 4.0r3 and 4.0r7 CDs, using two different networks to access repositories, and the same result each time: install goes fine until the "OK" for the "Desktop/Web Server/Mail Server/etc." selections, it brings up the "Select and install software" page and then it freezes, showing "5%" and "Please wait..." under the progress bar.
If I hadn't built 20+ servers this way I'd think it was me, but it's not... I think. What's going on?
(No, we're not upgrading to 5.0. Reference above mention of lots o' servers! )
Debian :: Setting PATH Environment Variable
May 19, 2015I have been trying to change my PATH environment variable to no avail. I am using Jessie i386 with MATE. Using my .bashrc file works but not well because with subshells the modifications get repeated. I want the change to occur on login.
I tried modifying ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile /etc/profile and /etc/environment and one or two others but in no case did my change get picked up even after logging out and in again and even after rebooting. I searched the Internet and found each of the above places to make the change but they don't seem to work with Jessie.
Where do I make the necessary change?
Debian :: 8.3.0 - Can Change Desktop Environment After Install
Feb 17, 2016I am new to Linux and I just installed Debian Jessie about a week ago. I have been tweaking it and learning the command line and all that, but I also have been reading and studying about different aspects of Debian that I was unaware of before I installed it. Because of my reading, I think that I would like to change my desktop environment. When I installed Debian, I consciously chose the Cinnamon desktop because I felt that the simplicity would suit my needs, but I have recently read about KDE and I think that it has some features that I would be interested in. Is it possible to change my desktop environment now, even though I have already installed Debian? If so, how difficult is it?
On a very closely related question, I do have an extra 60 GB partition just sitting there with nothing on it. As an alternative to the above scenario of changing desktop environments before I know exactly which one I will like better, I can make another installation of Debian on my free partition and run both Cinnamon and KDE side-by-side for a little while until I learn which one suits my needs the best.
Debian :: Does Netinstall Include Desktop Environment?
Dec 16, 2010if debian lenny is installed using a netinstall cd would it contain a desktop environment if no internet connection is available at installation?
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Mar 4, 2011i am trying to install xen on Debian with xfce desktop environment. The instruction for xen at the following link
[URL]
says it is required to do the following:
- The Linux hotplug system (e.g., /sbin/hotplug and related scripts. I have downloaded the package "hotplug-2004_03_29.tar" and uzipped the package. I have the following files/packages:
testusr@debian:~/Downloads/hotplug-2004_03_29$ ls
ChangeLog etc hotplug.spec mkinstalldirs sbin
debian hotplug.8 Makefile README
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