Carrie Webb: Joe Cool says.
Robbie Ferguson: Hi, Joe Cool.
Carrie Webb: How do I go about removing files that are not needed in the file system? My 4 gig SSD, solid state drive. Thank you for defining that, 512 megabytes RAM. I used it to browse the web, everything works fine and I am at 93.8% capacity of the 1.5 megabytes. In other words, my total file system capacity, 1.6 gig. I used 1.5 gig available, 104.6 megabytes.
Robbie Ferguson: All I have to say, he’s got this super fast solid state drive. What is itty-bitty?
Carrie Webb: Oh, okay.
Robbie Ferguson: Teeny-weeny.
Carrie Webb: So he needs more.
Robbie Ferguson: Well, he just doesn’t have enough but what you're mentioning there Jackal is that you used this thing specifically for web surfing and doing web-based things. So the first thing I would look at is, is the operating system that you're running necessarily the best operating system for you because it sounds to me like you're using a bit too much space for just surfing the web because all you really need is access to your networking hardware and being able to use Firefox for example, pardon me.
But if you're using Ubuntu what I would recommend is probably removing some of those unneeded packages like if you go through your menu here, we’ve got things like your GIMP image editor, Open Office is another one like writer and things like that, your spreadsheets and sound and video applications, just all these different applications that you probably don’t need, games which don’t take up a lot of space out of the box because they’re just pretty small games.
But because you only have 4 gigs, you want to get rid of anything that you do not really need. So I would recommend if you're not going to install the different operating systems, something is a little more lightweight, go into system administration synaptic package manager and just go through all the installed applications here and just kind of find out what is actually necessary. Be very, very careful. I just warn you like don’t remove things that you don’t know what they are.
But if you're going through and you see something like Open Office you can safely remove that. The ones that are checked off are installed on your system so if I scroll through this list, there is one that is installed. Now I'm not going to remove that because I don’t necessarily know what that is. There is all these different things like ACPI, and don’t touch them because you may not be sure what they are and certainly you don’t want to remove ACPI.
So moving through like just fine things that you don’t really need like Open Office because in your case, you're just using this for the web. You don’t need an office suite. You don’t need GNU image manipulation program so get those things off. That’s probably going to free up a good amount of space. Other than that, I mean we can look at stuff like clearing out your temporary files and things but that’s probably not what’s taking up the space. I would think it’s a fairly small drive so you want to definitely just get rid some of the apps that you're not really using.
Look at the more lightweight like this different Linux distributions out there are available that are specifically for web surfing, only maybe like a kiosk version or something but it depends on what platform you're using and there’s not a lot of information in the email but give them a try and let us know, alright. Thanks, Joe Cool.
Carrie Webb: Thanks for your question.
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