Does gNewSense use less cpu and ram?
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gNewSense seems to use mate (or maybe gnome 2); I heard that mate is a little easier on older hardware.
I remember reading that there's no benefit in switching to mate if the programs rely on gnome3 anyway. Is that correct? I may be totally wrong.
I'm thinking of giving gNewSense a try -- what do you guys think?
gNewSense 3.1 (the latest version) uses the antique GNOME 2.30 (it must be something like four years old) by default. Like its base: Debian 7.0 wheezy.
If you have older hardware, I would advise the soon-to-be-released Trisquel Mini 7: http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/
The desktop it ships by default, LXDE, is lighter than GNOME 2. And being based on *buntu 14.014 Trusty Tahr, you would have applications in their latest (or close to latest) versions a few clicks away.
Do current versions of programs require a more current version of gnome to run? So gNewSense 3.1 will only run years-old versions of programs?
Edit: what is the down-side to gnome 2.3? (if it only runs years-old versions of programs ... that would be a pretty big down-side)
I am simply talking about the versions of the packages in gNewSense's repositories: GNOME 2.30, Firefox 3.5, LibreOffice 3.2, etc. If you want to know about other applications, look at their versions in Debian stable: https://packages.debian.org/stable/
Installing software not in the repository can quickly become a dependency hell. Not to talk about the hassle of finding the packages in the first place. Go for the packages in Debian testing if you really want to try gNewSense: https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
But, again, if you want a light GNU/Linux system where recent applications are easily available, Trisquel Mini 7 is a way better option than gNewSense 3.1 (w.r.t. both criteria) : http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/
Oh I understand now -- thanks MB. I will take your advice and use Mini if I need a lighter system down the road.
I wanted to try gNewSense for the nostalgic gui, and the possibility of getting a little more battery life out of my laptop. My laptop handles standard Trisquel fine though, and the battery life is decent enough; I will probably stay with Trisquel 7 for now.
I thought gNewSense 3.1 is based on Debian 6.0 squeeze.
You're reffering to Debian Squeeze, not Wheezy. The latter one is the current stable release and it would be quite decent if gnewsense was based on it.
However, you're right with the rest of your points.
Squeeze still gets support so using it is not a problem from a security point of view - quite unlike some other fsf endorsed distros which look almost dead - but it is from a practical point of view. Don't know if people have so much fun with years-old software and I guess squeeze won't be supported for so long since it's already oldstable.
GnewSense 3 is definitely based on debian Squeeze (6, oldstable), not Wheezy(7, current stable), considering how perfectly it works with GTK+2 themes, and how perfectly it doesn't with my Nvidia GeForce 6200 GPU.
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