[GLLUG] Re: Debian on My Laptop

[Julie Code]

Is what you're saying Wald, is that SLackware's installer doesn't have a GUI 
or the entire operating system? I think I'd be willing to use an operating 
system without a GUI but it would probably be hard for me.  I did look up 
slackware and they do have KDE for slackware http://www.slackware.com/
My computer is an I586 333 Mhz 4.3 billion byte HDD, with 24x cd rom. by the 
way....

Julie

>From: Wald <pdwald at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: pdwald at gmail.com
>To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
>Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Re: Debian on My Laptop
>Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:24:31 -0400
>
>
>You should try to install slackware. I believe that it should install
>normally following the proper procedures. Slackware  would be the best
>option for such hardware as far as speed and simplicity goes. The
>installer does not have graphical interface, nothing like anaconda, etc;
>but the nucurse interface or text interfaces is very easy to follow. I
>would not recommend running anything like kde or gnome in such hardware,
>but an icewm would quite fast and it get the job done. I run a webserver
>inside a honeypot, ssh server, smb server, nfs server, etc, 24 hours per
>day 365 days per year on a Pentium 166MMX laptop and everything is based
>on slackware 11.0 linux with kernel 2.6.x (it takes a long time to
>compile the kernel though). Slackware also has package management system
>called swaret which would update anything or even upgrade the whole system.
>
>-pedro
>
>
>
>Chick Tower wrote:
> > Don't forget how old Julie's "new" laptop is.  I believe it has a
> > Pentium, maybe a Pentium II, and 64MB of RAM.  I doubt Ubuntu would boot
> > on it, even without any GUI.
> >
> > Granted, Julie probably doesn't have much, if anything, on it that needs
> > saving, but you might want to back up the Damn Small Linux installation
> > on it so you can restore it when you find the recent version of other
> > distros won't run on it, or run poorly.  Now, the latest version of Damn
> > Small Linux would be a good choice, as I didn't notice how old the
> > version on it now is.  And a new version of Puppy Linux just came out.
> >
> >                                Chick
> >
> >
> > Charles Ulrich wrote:
> >> Julie Code wrote:
> >> > I was wondering if someone would be willing to install debian on my
> >> > laptop. I am wanting debian instead of damn small because they have
> >> > better apts becuase I want to put LaTex on my computer and all the
> >> > packages that goes with it.  I hear there is a new debian out?
> >
> > You might want to go with Ubuntu instead. It's based on Debian but is
> > far easier to install and far easier to use. If Ubuntu doesn't have the
> > LaTeX packages you want, I believe most Debian packages work just fine
> > in Ubuntu.
> >
> >
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