On 04 Apr, wrote:
In article , TonyL
wrote:


During the last few days I've been concentrating my 'computing' on
getting rpcemu (an emulator for a RiscOS machine) running on my newer
laptop. But when I get a chance I'll drag the older laptop out of its
dark corner, run it, and tell you some of the memory/cpu values I get
for normal use.

Now done that. Results as follows

1) Boot up into the default Crunchbang lite system, but with ROX added on
top of openbox for the desktop. RAM used = 58 MB, CPU when not doing
anything = 3 percent load.

2) Start up FireFox and play 'Jazz Record Requests' using the BBC iPlayer.
RAM used now up to 122 MB, CPU now 15 percent loading

3) Quit FireFox and start VLC (Media Player). Play a 44/16 LPCM Wave file
taken from an audio CD. RAM used now 89MB, CPU 9 percent.

I can't recall all the CPU details but it is an Intel 2GHz single core
laptop type that they sold 7-8 years ago,

I tended to get similar results with Xubuntu 9.04. But if you just want to
play music files and use the iPlayer I'd say Crunchbang lite is a bit
lighter and does the job.

Slainte,

Jim

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