I tried out a couple of new things this evening. Doing them both at the same time was probably not a good idea, but anyway.
I switched my FreeRunner to SHR. OM2008.12 only worked with the older 2.6.24 kernels, and I need 2.6.28 or later for the Glamo stuff. It all seems to be working.reasonably well so far, but I haven't done much testing yet because I also...
...Switched my laptop to Fluxbox, from Xfce4 and previously GNOME. I decided I'd got fed up with desktop environment bloatware (I even found XFCE quite slow). I hate the idea that we have so much hardware power that's being eaten up as fast as, perhaps even slightly faster than, it's being made available. So I'm going the other way, and finding the most lightweight system I can comfortably get away with. The only "bloaty" thing I really need is some kind of monitor of CPU and memory usage, which I like to obsessively keep an eye on. For this, I'm back to using GKrellM, which I haven't used since about 2003.
I think I've contracted a cold. Also, thesis doom.
I switched my FreeRunner to SHR. OM2008.12 only worked with the older 2.6.24 kernels, and I need 2.6.28 or later for the Glamo stuff. It all seems to be working.reasonably well so far, but I haven't done much testing yet because I also...
...Switched my laptop to Fluxbox, from Xfce4 and previously GNOME. I decided I'd got fed up with desktop environment bloatware (I even found XFCE quite slow). I hate the idea that we have so much hardware power that's being eaten up as fast as, perhaps even slightly faster than, it's being made available. So I'm going the other way, and finding the most lightweight system I can comfortably get away with. The only "bloaty" thing I really need is some kind of monitor of CPU and memory usage, which I like to obsessively keep an eye on. For this, I'm back to using GKrellM, which I haven't used since about 2003.
I think I've contracted a cold. Also, thesis doom.
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