Openbox Freedom Day
South Africa celebrated Freedom Day, Tuesday 27th April, so I spent the day attempting to squeeze freedom out of my aging 1.8ghz PC with 1Gb Ram.
The solution to achieving the kind of brute-force computing and speed I need in order to have a faster Web experience was to use a different window manager. Creating an Openbox session which free’s up RAM allows my heaveyweight Firefox browser to access more computer resources and hence greater freedom. Less caching means the browser can live totally in RAM, which is what the programme was designed to do.
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