Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)
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On 05/25/07 23:27, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
> Ron Johnson ron.l.johnson@cox.net <mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net> Fri, 25
> May 2007 12:15:17 -0500
>
> On 05/25/07 11:32, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote (portions deleted):
>
>> > have installed Windows and booted live Linux CD's. Ubuntu Dapper Drake
>
>> > stalled with a KDE desk error.
>
> RJ> What kind of error?
>
> It halted with the beige screen of death with a small box saying KDE
> Desk Error if I remember correctly. At the time I was just seeing which
> CDROM would be successful while waiting for the replacement drive.
Argh, I mis-read desk for *disk*.
Never mind.
[snip]
>
> Two vital questions are:
>
> 1. How much RAM does the laptop have? Probably not much.
>
> 128 MB (Since it is probably not much, I did set aside a 2 GB partition
> for a swap partition.)
Figured. You'll need something lighter-weight than even Xfce (which
is based on getting-heavy GTK2 and leaks memory). There have
recently been a couple of threads regarding people's preferences in
light-weight WMs.
Also, I prefer swap *files*, since they are more flexible.
> 2. How much experience do you have with Linux?
>
> I have Debian Sarge running on a Gateway 500 Pentium III 500 MHZ which
> also dual boots via LILO into Windows 98SE.
>
> I have Debian Etch which is sharing the box with Windows XP Pro dual
> booting under GRUB.
A little behind the times, no?
> That box has a Pentium 4 Prescott at 3.2 GHZ.
Ah, a space heater!
> I have enough experience to get good and lost!
Don't we all...
> RJ> Xubuntu might be good choice to install, even though you might then
> RJ> have to install a lighter-weight window manager.
>
> As old as this equipment is, a light weight window manager such as xfce
> on top of Debian or Xubuntu may indeed be the way to go.
Hardware detection will be the tricky part, I think. *buntu is
still better at it than straight Debian.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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