On 06/08/2011 02:35 PM, Beartooth wrote:
I've been running Omega Linux 14 (respin of F 14) on an EeePC 701, with an 8GB camera card in the slot. I'm very pleased with the OS (Rahul, I owe you big time!); but the hardware just doesn't fit my extra large trifocal fingers and arthritic eyeballs. (I've replaced it with a Starling 10" from System76, running plain F14.)
My wife, who has small hands and better eyesight, naturally gets first refusal of the EeePC; I think she'll like it even more than I, and keep it for years. (At our age, we spend a lot of time in medical waiting rooms, which are starting to have wifi, but still have dismal magazines.The EeePC is little more trouble than a book.)
If she keeps it, I'll leave my own userid on it, to make troubleshooting more convenient; but my files are taking up most of the space available, and need to be devastated, wholesale.
I'll start with text files and folders full of pix to use as desktop backgrounds; no sweat there. But what else?
Any thoughts on what's safe to remove -- such as *all* tarballs and rpm's downloaded by me (rather than by yum or PackageKit)?
Well, try things like:
package-cleanup --leaves
and if it looks OK:
package-cleanup -q --leaves | xargs yum -y remove
and repeat the 2 commands, since each purging of unused libraries may create further unused libraries.
You can try the same with "--orphans" instead of "--leaves".
Also, I upgraded my EEE 901 with a (bigger) third-party solid-state drive. It runs much faster now, as a bonus.
- Mike