Nick said:
>> Use a live media that copies everything to RAM. Make your own if no
>> readily available is there - it is quite easy with Gentoo, Arch or
>> whatever remains more or less simple these days.
>
> Yep, that's a good idea, but obviously depends on the host computer
> having lots of available RAM. But if you're able to it'll make
> everything fast and delightful.
These days nearly everything has enough RAM - even phones. FWIW a
specially crafted LiveUSB containing bare minimum to run GIMP and its
plugins comfortably would require small amount of RAM, particularly if
all squeezed into initramfs.
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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Received on Tue Dec 03 2013 - 06:06:04 CET