Linux Mint 18?

[Leon A. Goldstein]

I'd like to know if Mint 18 is heavier on resources than 17.3. I've 
mentioned before I am running 32-bit 17.3 Mate on an elderly Toshiba 
notebook with the puny Atom CPU - 2 GB RAM - and it is quite acceptable 
compared to Windows on this feeble platform. Performance with a Toshiba 
Satellite with Centrino CPU and 2.5 GB RAM is quite brisk.  Of course, 
both of these old laptops now have SSD's.

 From what I'm seeing, Mint 17.3 will run very nicely on old platforms, 
as long as the CPU is some sort of multi-core and there is at least 2 GB 
of RAM.  These old laptops can still be useful with an SSD upgrade and 
Mint 17.3.


On 08/04/2016 08:28 PM, Michael Hipp via Linux-users wrote:
> On 8/1/2016 10:31 AM, Leon Goldstein via Linux-users wrote:
>> Hi gang: anybody tried Linux Mint 18 yet?
>
> I've been playing with it in a VM. For a desktop distro I could easily 
> pick it over Ubuntu. Cinnamon is quite good.
>
> Michael
>
>>
>> I've mentioned before I've transitioned to Mint 17.3 for my Debian
>> install.  My old and well-liked Libranet was just too far behind to keep
>> up with e.g. secure encryption with Firefox, and even failed to boot on
>> a somewhat newer computer, with a problem evidently in parsing the RTC.
>>
>> One feature I particularly liked with my old Libranet was Compupic, a
>> very easy to use and feature-rich graphics manager.  It also fell
>> behind, and broke after glibc2.3.1.  However, I've discovered Fotoxx and
>> it so far looks like a worthy replacement.
>>
>> So, let's wake up and get some good ol' fashioned Linux discussions 
>> going!
>>
>
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Leon A. Goldstein

System L2
Linux Mint 17.3