Delete Linux Mint and install Chrome OS on old laptop?

[malch]

No GUI for pacman?

Lots of them. This is Linux

Honestly, you can learn (enough) pacman in a few minutes and I think it's by far the best option.

 

[gs85739az]

Found this link to be very beneficial for newbies:

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wiki.manjaro.org

 

[gs85739az]

Just added 2x2GB sticks for Dell Inspiron 1501, it seems quicker, will add SSD later this week when it arrives from WD...

 

[gs85739az]

Bought the wifi antenna USB dongle, have used on several older PC to easily obtain my home Wifi, it works great[where as a Netgear dongle WNA 3100 NEVER worked on any PC!

Also just installed the RAM you advised earlier in the week[2X2GB sticks], it went it, works perfectly...but...what is the Majaro Linux terminal command/lingo to find out how much RAM the PC now recognizes,etc..it "should' be 4GB of RAM...since it's a Sempron CPU, I figure'd 4GB was enough? The RAM def makes it a bit zippy-i-er...ty again..waiting for the SSD to ship soon...

 

[malch]

Also just installed the RAM you advised earlier in the week[2X2GB sticks], it went it, works perfectly...but...what is the Majaro Linux terminal command/lingo to find out how much RAM the PC now recognizes,etc..it "should' be 4GB of RAM...since it's a Sempron CPU, I figure'd 4GB was enough? The RAM def makes it a bit zippy-i-er...ty again..waiting for the SSD to ship soon...

There are lots of ways to get at this but my suggestion is:

sudo pacman -S hardinfo # I don't think it's there by default

Once installed, you can setup a shortcut or simply enter "hardinfo" at the shell prompt.

I suggest you keep a list of the packages you install like this:

sudo pacman -S traceroute lynx whois bind-tools gnome-system-monitor iotop iperf
sudo pacman -S hardinfo gparted partimage partclone testdisk
sudo pacman -S dialog clonezilla conky imagewriter
sudo pacman -S geeqie eog gdb

This way, if/when you need to re-install on install another system, you can just copy and paste... and bang, you have all your favorite tools ready to go.

 

[gs85739az]

Found this in an on-line search, it appears to be what I want? does this indicate I now have 3.9GB RAM? and 1 GB Free[therefore using 3 GB now]?

[gary@gary-pc ~]$ sudo cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal: 3921476 kB

MemFree: 1040108 kB

MemAvailable: 1488864 kB

Buffers: 72308 kB

Cached: 690700 kB

SwapCached: 0 kB

Active: 2168000 kB

Inactive: 471860 kB

Active(anon): 1884680 kB

Inactive(anon): 143696 kB

Active(file): 283320 kB

Inactive(file): 328164 kB

Unevictable: 112 kB

Mlocked: 112 kB

SwapTotal: 4229828 kB

SwapFree: 4229828 kB

Dirty: 1440 kB

Writeback: 0 kB

AnonPages: 1832096 kB

Mapped: 357524 kB

Shmem: 151528 kB

Slab: 118092 kB

SReclaimable: 85816 kB

SUnreclaim: 32276 kB

KernelStack: 9408 kB

PageTables: 54932 kB

NFS_Unstable: 0 kB

Bounce: 0 kB

WritebackTmp: 0 kB

CommitLimit: 6190564 kB

Committed_AS: 6897408 kB

VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB

VmallocUsed: 0 kB

VmallocChunk: 0 kB

HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB

AnonHugePages: 157696 kB

ShmemHugePages: 0 kB

ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB

HugePages_Total: 0

HugePages_Free: 0

HugePages_Rsvd: 0

HugePages_Surp: 0

Hugepagesize: 2048 kB

DirectMap4k: 125376 kB

DirectMap2M: 3936256 kB

 

[gs85739az]

Got it! now just typing "hardinfo" into Terminal gets me mucho data..ty again..

couldn't figure out how to cut n paste it to this message, but copied the first two lines:

Total: 3921476KB

FREE: 44300KB[but this seemed to go up/down as I watched it..must be "live" read of what's left of RAM...?--
Gary

 

[gs85739az]

thanks..