Or Funtoo, or Devuan, or Void Linux. On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:18:56 -0700 "Herminio Hernandez, Jr." wrote: > Aaron, > > You can always run Gentoo...systemd free ;) > > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Aaron Jones > wrote: > > > Minimum 32gb ddr4 checking in. I remember when I used to put Linux > > on low spec machines... > > > > You know, the guy at the computer store told me I would never fill > > my 10gb hard drive. But thanks to bloat and Lennart Poettering, I > > now need 32gb of ram, 8 cores, and a multi terrabyte ssd just to be > > effective. The future is here ladies and gents... and it is > > gloriously unoptimized. > > > > On Sep 6, 2017, at 3:55 PM, Stephen Partington > > wrote: > > > > I am currently running 24gb ram and would use more. But I have a > > combination of VM use, photography (ram goes fast when you have > > 24mp raw) gaming and other strange tasks going. > > > > On Sep 6, 2017 1:48 PM, "Carruth, Rusty" > > wrote: > >> Well, we've kind of strayed from the original topic, so I'll do a > >> pre-emptive strike and change the subject. Hopefully nobody gets > >> mad... > >> > >> So, I'm impressed by the memory/cpu load that Mr Graham has on his > >> computer. And I thought I was a hog... er, I mean heavy resource > >> user! (I once was moved to my own personal Sun Sparc computer > >> because I kept beating up the shared one getting work done...) > >> > >> But I agree with him that 16G is getting close to the minimum > >> required amount if you do much web browsing with lots of tabs (Ok, > >> he didn't exactly say that, but it was implied). (Moment of > >> openness - I once had 50 tabs in a single Firefox window, and > >> there were at least 4 other Firefox windows running. At this > >> point in time, I have 17 firefox windows running, with a total of > >> 32+5+14+17+10+17+32+30+14+98+12+60+16+1+12+3+18+40. Whoa, that > >> even surprised me. Anyway, 'only' 5G of ram in use on this 16G > >> windows machine...) > >> > >> Also, I don't consider a thin client to be useful for anything but > >> a work machine which is unable to leave the office. Too many ways > >> to have things not work (or be hacked/etc).. IMHO, of course :-) > >> > >> Rusty > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: PLUG-discuss > >> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Matt > >> Graham Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 1:38 PM > >> To: Main PLUG discussion list > >> Subject: Re: Warranty!!?!?!?!?! > >> > >> On 2017-09-06 12:26, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote: > >> > What are you doing that requires a top of the line CPU, 32G RAM, > >> > and a 1T SSD? > >> > >> Android development? :-) An Android project someone else put > >> together here uses some sort of library or syntactic sugar > >> combination that makes compiles peg the CPU for several minutes > >> when one line of one file's changed. (Java's always been a > >> bloated sack, but this is kind of unusual.) > >> > >> > Given that [using someone else's computer as a vital part of > >> > whatever you're doing], a baseline laptop with decent graphics, > >> > 8G RAM, and a 128G SSD should be enough. > >> > >> Maybe for some really lightweight use cases. git assumes you have > >> infinite storage space. Any nontrivial node.js project will eat > >> 512M in node_modules dependencies. The Android Studio support > >> directory here is 42G. The graphic design people here said that > >> there was no way they could get by with machines that had only > >> 256G SSDs, because .psd files are huge. And these are work > >> machines. You'd have to add the space music and media collections > >> take up to personal machines. > >> > Unless one is running many local virtual machines, doing some > >> > serious video or image work, or doing lots of compiling... I am > >> > think the cloud and thin client hardware is the way to go. > >> > >> If you have a 100% reliable and fast network, and your disk space > >> needs are tiny, and your external service provider won't die, this > >> *might* work. Being able to work (and play) on a personal machine > >> without external dependencies is useful in enough circumstances > >> that I wouldn't consider buying a thin client as anything other > >> than a toy. > >> > >> -- > >> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > >> There is no Darkness in Eternity > >> But only Light too dim for us to see. > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss