CrunchBang Linux

Thanks for the info. Maybe it's not the place, sorry.

Osmo is not very beautiful, but it's ok, what I was looking for (light permanent calendar/wallpaper).

And do you know about some calendar/wallpaper, full desktop size? I mean, I got very bad memory, and the first thing I want to see when I open my laptop is a calendar/agenda, full size. With transparency or not, but full size.

I'm looking for this but not lucky.

Thank you very much, it's solved!!!

Well, of course they use a lot of memory, but the problem is that when I finish with that pages the amount of swap memory is still ridiculous high, and stays there, freezing my word processor, everything.

Any risk with this? And I know about updates, I never update, always wait until the next release.
(And when the next release of Crunchbang?)

I don't find that in Chrome (it's my favourite browser right now), but I'll try it with Firefox 3.5, I think is not bad idea, though the mistary remains the same:

Why when I finish with my browsing all that amount of swap memory remains there??? Even closing the browser, the swap memory remains high. With no other app running.

I'll try Firefox disk cache, anyway.

Thanks.

I turned down the swapiness, it's the first thing I tried. And it's not solution take out the wireless card.

I've read that firefox 3 uses too much cache memory:
http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/fix-ex … isk-usage/

So I'm gonna try install firefox 3.5 or Opera.

And any good manual to recompile the kernel? But good, please, I only need to change the hard drive driver.

Well, my problem with linux it's just that. With every distro, not only ubuntu or debian (Slax-slackware too).

I don't know the reason, but after 4 o 5 hours working, and after some weeks of trying a distro, my hard drive starts to work too much, the system uses too much memory (only with firefox more than 200 Mbs.) and finally freezes. In fact, I have to shut down the computer with the power button, because sometimes my hard drive goes crazy and doesn't stop working.

Dangerous. I've read that ubuntu can burn your hard drive, and now I believe it's true, but not only ubuntu, also slax, etc...

Why?

Ok, I was thinking that was a problem of swap memory, but I disabled it and the problem it's the same. I was thinking that was a problem with the libata driver (in fact, ubuntu is shit solving that problem, because not debian not slackware have that stupid driver, unable to turn on the dma on old drives; and opensuse has a kernel command to change the driver, really easy), but other distros use the old ide driver and the problem persists.

It's not firefox, because sometimes it's using seamonkey. I've not used Opera, though, I'll try it. But sometimes the system freezes with synaptic, installing some aplication. Yes, dangerous too.

And it's not gnome or kde or openbox or fluxbox, it's the same shit with all these.

So???

No idea. But I don't like to see my hard drive working that way, I have to reboot the computer every 3 or 4 hours, then it's ok.

(Right now, for example, my system is using 128 mb of memory, 20 of swap; before I reboot was 220 Mb, with only firefox open).

Some help, please, or I finish buying  a mac (really, you get a little tired of fighting with "shadows", i'm near one year this way).