Re: Choosing Debian version or derivative to run Wine when resource poor
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 23:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 15:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > Is there any reason that a Ubuntu version Mint would be any more
> > suitable than a custom install of Debian - especially as there is
> > a choice of kernels?
>
> Debian can be used with older CPUs, than *buntus can.
>
> "All i486 and later processors are still supported" -
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en#idp5615872
>
> "Support for i586 and lower processors, as well as for i686 processors
> without the cmov instruction, was dropped in Ubuntu 10.10. Most i686 and
> later processors are still supported" -
> https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/i386/hardware-supported.html
>
> In the past Edubuntu provided a combination of nice software.
> http://www.edubuntu.org/ nowadays seems to use Unity, but another *buntu
> could be installed and after that the Edubuntu meta packages, so assumed
> the processor shouldn't be an issue, than this is an advantage of
> *buntu.
It seems to be one meta-package only, but even if Unity should be a
dependency, it would be easy to solve, to install it without Unity.
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