Sense out of Nonsense

This was posted elsewhere some years ago and is relevant now the way they handle things in the Middle East currently and Sri-Lanka in the past.

The reproduction without edition is here but I may edit it  later with the present in mind.

Sense out of Nonsense- SiR Lanka Experience

A worthy friend
Tells me
NaTo stands for
No Action
Talk Only show
Run by
The elite
Brainless (senseless)
Souls of the
West but not East

When I saw
The women
In TV pictures
Of the recent
Peace walk and talk
On reflection
I could only
Think of a devil incarnation
A true devil in
Sheep clothing
Good for
Devil Dancing
Of the Southern Variety
Let me coin
A typical Sri-Lankan
Word TOPPI for
Talk Only
Peace Pomps International
For the Peace mongers
Who wear a hat of
Western cult
Playing nonsense
Out of a word called
PEACE
That originates from
The Compassionate Quality
Of Metta
Of the Lord Buddha
By the way
PP of the Toppi stands for
Pissu Poras
Brainwashed
Brandishing
A new meaning to
Talk Only
Hora Shows
Of the nonsense variety
Propped up
By the money of
Non Gracious Variety
There are few types
Of Horas
In this island paradise
The Kuda Horas (Parasols or the Shelter)
The Toopi Horas (Hat or the Ideas)
The Sivuru Horas (Robe or the Convictions)
The Poth Horas (Books or the Intellectual Property)
Of the kindergarten variety
But the new and
Emerging variety
Is the Mara (Devil) Hora National
Of the international type
This is vital for someone
Without influence
To Admit his or her child
To year one
In National schools
Of SiR Lanka

Desktops becoming Fatty and eating up resources at boot time.

I recently tested Mandriva's latest Live DVD which is trying to become a gorilla fed on a FAT diet (type of a desktop) and very lazy to boot and work with me.

I could not fire up FireFox and LibreOffice and it froze on my old IBM with 1 GiB RAM.

Unfortunately Ubuntu's Unity desktop and (Gnome 3 new desktop I have not downloaded or tested yet) Gnome 3 has the same Atherosclerotic predilection and if you have low RAM please do not try them.

My comments elsewhere reported  on  Ubuntu and  Ping Eee were done (I have installed them) on my laptop with 4 GiB RAM and they run smoothly with adequate RAM.

If you have low RAM please do not try them.

Instead try distribution on a lean diet.

There are plenty.

1. 4MLinux all in one (70 MiB). It has UnetBootIn too.

2. Puppy Linux (120 Mib)

3. Unity (370) both 32 bits and 64 bits version.

4. Peppermint (440MiB)

5. TaylorSwift (690 MiB)

So if you have an old computer UP your RAM and have several of the above mentioned distribution at your disposal.

I see another comment at distrowatch where a user complains that so called i586 distributions do not boot up.

One is they do not test (like me) before release and most of them a "cravvy "on RAM.

"Cravvy" is a new term (from Crave) I have coined for (Savvy lineage) distributions that eat up RAM like Microsoft.

So my advice for newbies is for you to have at least three Live distributions in addition to your FAT and atherosclerotic "potato couch' distributions.

If you have trouble with the lazy gorilla put a bonobo live and get your work done on a flash.

One super lightweight.

One lightweight.

One middleweight.

 Below is a reproduction from DistroWatch and read it carefully.

Alternative desktop environments and window manager are currently making a strong comeback, with many users willing to experiment with some that once seemed on the verge of extinction. One of them is Enlightenment, a flashy, but still lightweight window manager whose current version (17) has been in development for nearly a decade. Jeff Hoogland, the founder and lead developer of Bodhi Linux, lists the five things the Enlightenment desktop does best: "There is no doubting that all of our modern desktops have been progressing in features and functionality. One spot where Enlightenment excels though is that it has a focus on remaining trim and fast while adding these new features. Don't believe me? KDE 4.x needs around 512 MB to be happy, GNOME 3 recommends slightly more at 768 MB and Ubuntu's Unity desktop requests a full gigabyte! Someone always pops up and cries out, 'but our computers are so powerful it doesn't matter', whenever you mention system requirements these days. The fact remains though - it does matter. A desktop that runs fast on a slow system will fly on a quick system. Resources should be there for your applications to use, not for your desktop environment to eat up. Trim as Enlightenment already is, the developers are currently in the process of rewriting all of it's code to use XCB to replace XLib - which will make it even faster."