Yeah, a Linux distro from a few years ago

Post #331,567 by lincoln 8/19/10 10:01:40 PM Reply	Yeah, a Linux distro from a few years ago Current ones are getting as large as recent versions of Windows - not something to be proud of. "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #331,582 by pwhysall 8/20/10 1:37:13 AM Reply	Not so Although there's a lot of software in a Linux distribution, the desktop will run on computers with fewer resources than WIndows XP thru 7. I have an ancient Compaq Presario V4000 (512MB, some tatty Celeron or other, you know the drill) that my mother was going to scrap. It had Windows XP Home on it which, when freshly installed, was fine; once it had been loaded up with all the bits and pieces that are required on top of a base WXP install to make it useful, it was a dog. It's now running Linux Mint 9 and is more than adequate for running Firefox, Evolution and other internetty things. I have no doubt that it would make a fine, if slow, development box.
Post #331,583 by crazy 8/20/10 1:49:39 AM Reply	For someone who claims to know very little about linux you sure are opinionated.
Post #331,584 by folkert 8/20/10 5:48:51 AM Reply	I'm running... XUbuntu 10.04 on an 800MHz 512MB Dell Laptop... Just fine. All the eye candy turned off... just like I do on my 3 year old T61. You seem to think everything is insurmountable. Hence, you are a victim. Same Story, Different Day. When you stop playing the victim and stop being the broken record you claim I am, then I'll be glad to help you.
Post #331,588 by static 8/20/10 7:23:24 AM Reply	Definitely not so. The current Debian will run a-okay on a Pentium 200 with 96Mb of RAM. I know this because that's what my server is. I wouldn't run X on it, though. Well, actually I wouldn't run GNOME on it. It would probably do quite okay with XFCE or WindowMaker. But for a lightweight website and mail server, it's fabulous. I've learnt a lot running that on an old server. Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.

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