On 06/21/2015 08:29 AM, andredo@wxs.nl wrote:
Foto improvement with Gimp,
Any image processing, be it GIMP, Darktable or any one of a number of others, ends up being memory intensive and some of the algorithms are CPU intensive. Some implementations make use of parallelism so multi-core CPUs can make use of them. Check first. Do you really mean photo as in you take the picture and download from the camera? If so, you're probably better of with Darktable than GIMP since it handle camera and lens correction and is geared for photo processing, knows about white balance correction and much much more. Perhaps AFTER DT processing turn to GIMP, but I'd never use GIMP on downloads from my camera _first_ and I do a lot of photo processing. And yes I have a multi-core. I just wish this machine could handle more memory. Still, you get what you pay for ...
simple documents with LibreOffice,
There are alternatives. If you are suing KDE it has its own office suite.
e-mails with Firebird
Do you mean Thunderbird?
and Internet with Firefox.
The Mozilla suite can end up being very memory intensive. As others have commented here, Firefox is not good at releasing memory when you close tabs. The trouble is TB and FF have so many "useful" (for various values of usefulness) plugins that Kmail and Konqueror don't have. But you pay in terms of memory for that. That being said, I have run TB & FF on a 800MHz single core machine with just 1G of memory. (Old W95 class machines from the Closet of Anxieties that now just do DNS/DHCP) No problems with email, no problems with FF so long as I kept the number of tabs small. heck, its getting to a point where I'm doing a lot of my email and web browsing using my phone or tablet. The phone only has 1G of memory! The tablet has 2G and many of the packages there do photo-processing, but I suspect they make use of the GPU. As far as I can see an old Dell or IBM desktop with a 4 core and 4G of memory from eBay or Kijiji for less than $200, or possibly your local thrift store -- opportunistically -- for about $50, possibly with another $50 in upgrade[1], will do all you're asking. As we've said here many times, Linux runs on the most basic of hardware. If, perhaps, you have a machine that is more than adequate for TB, FF and office, but not much else you might need a bit of patience for the photo side. But I can run the photo apps -- overnight -- on the 800MHz machine. Constantly paging! So it really depends on you use profile. If its 98% photo-processing and 2% email/letters/browsing that's different from 2% photo-processing. If the former, you can justify a high powered machine. If not, then stay with the lower budget model. I've not found a machine, and there have been some doozies out of the Closet of Anxieties! that hasn't been able to run Linux and X. Except for broken hardware. (And sometimes that can be navigated around!) Maybe I'm better at setting up Xorg than the average Linux user. maybe I just enjoy the challenge :-) [1] memory, to the capacity of the machine, then GPU Upgrades, incrementally, aren't budget-busters http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9582530&csid=_61 -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org