antiX core 19.2 64 bit with runit

[Member macondo]

Running like a Deere, i installed: xorg icewm mehu lxterminal xfe hexchat inxi neofetch ufw mpv
Haven’t found any bugs or mistakes. Good job, devs!

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antiX Core 64 Bit Runit IceWM

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Man, Macondo, I thought I was a computer geek, but I bow down to you. this and your previous post makes me realize I’m just a guy with a nack for doing basic how-tos and creating basic GUI’s…
I’m curious- is really much difference between the normal antiX full and the runit version (RAM and CPU wise?)

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PPC, thanks, but i’m just a reckless user, not afraid of getting in trouble and reformatting my ssd, and start again.
Am using 900 MB of ram with FF and Chrome (Netflix on) with 2 terminals running. runit is light and fast my favorite since
Void Linux, i like it, that’s why I tried antiX again. I also have Slackware current in another partition, which uses less RAM than antiX, but that’s because of the packages’ compiling. You’re godd, don’t kid yourself.

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[Member macondo]

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PPC: check the RAM usage= 600 MB, not bad! i got a termimal and FF going on.

bobo@foo:~
$ inxi -Fz
System: Host: foo Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.6
Distro: antiX-19.2-runit_x64-core Hannie Schaft 28 March 2020
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: H81M-P33 (MS-7817) v: 1.0 serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1.9
date: 03/30/2015
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium G3250 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 3072 KiB
Speed: 3200 MHz min/max: 800/3200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3200 2: 3200
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: i915 resolution: 1920×1080~60Hz
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio: Device-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 2.68 GiB (2.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37120G size: 111.79 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 24.99 GiB used: 2.68 GiB (10.7%) fs: xfs dev: /dev/sda4
ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.86 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors: Missing: Required tool sensors not installed. Check –recommends
Info: Processes: 141 Uptime: 43m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 600.5 MiB (7.6%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36
bobo@foo:~
$

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antiX Core 64 Bit Runit IceWM

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macondo, it’s pretty clear by what you just shared that you probably have a system with “approximately” 8 GB, of which 7.68 GB is usable for the user interface as shown in your inxi output. That is reasonably similar to the Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop I’m using right now. I see some components have different manufacturers but a few of the peripheral interfaces are identical to the ones my commodity hardware uses.

Similarly, you’re using less than 10% of the available memory; that’s also typical to my usage. I find that my hardware, which has four cores.
When I use a full-featured desktop like the Fedora 32 Xfce I happen to be on, the number doubles – I’m at just over 19% memory usage on Fedora 32 Xfce with two tabs open in Firefox 77.0.1, xfce4-terminal with htop; so this desktop is more than twice as heavy as a tight, efficient antiX window manager configuration. Fedora 32 runs fine, but I definitely prefer antiX and MX, and use them much more often than the other distributions that I also test.

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Now you made me want to find a usb pendrive and try that too 🙂
I usually measure ram usage firing up free -h right after booting, to get an idea of how much idle ram my systems use- for me the ideal low resources system is something that can run at least a tab of a modern browser (with something simples, say antixforum.com) and still stay way below 1 gig of RAM- both antiX and MX Linux can acheive that- MX Linux running with the Fluxbox desktop (the latest versions come already preinstalled with FB, the user has only yo choose it from the log in menu), with all the stuff I don’t need turned off clicks some 210Mb of idle RAM. antiX full default version running IceWM uses about half of that…

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bobo@foo:~
$ inxi -Fz
System: Host: foo Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Ratpoison 1.4.9
Distro: antiX-19.2-runit_x64-core Hannie Schaft 28 March 2020
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: H81M-P33 (MS-7817) v: 1.0 serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1.9
date: 03/30/2015
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium G3250 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 3072 KiB
Speed: 3200 MHz min/max: 800/3200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3200 2: 3193
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: i915 resolution: 1920×1080~60Hz
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio: Device-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 2.68 GiB (2.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37120G size: 111.79 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 24.99 GiB used: 2.68 GiB (10.7%) fs: xfs dev: /dev/sda4
ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.86 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors: Missing: Required tool sensors not installed. Check –recommends
Info: Processes: 142 Uptime: 10m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 338.9 MiB (4.3%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36

This is ratpoison with FF and lxterminal open, using 4.3 percent of total memory (339 MB)

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