[GLLUG] Re: Debian on My Laptop

Thu Apr 19 15:33:06 EDT 2007

Julie,
I believe that being a 333Mhz, it should be Pentium II and has a fsb
(front side bus) of 66mhz. It is more than 2 times more powerful than
the one I have. I would add a little bit of extra memory though to run
it better (maybe more 32M) so that you will be able to put in sleep
mode, etc. There are many graphical interfaces for slackware (besides
gnome and kde), I mentioned icewm because it is similar to windows 98
interface. Only the installer is in text mode (driven by menus not pure
text), once it is installed you can use it with any graphical interface
(that is less resource hungry than kde or gnome, such as icewm or
windows maker, etc, and it will run really fast). I would be happy to
install it for you and provide you with the install medias (cds), I can
not make it to the meeting today; maybe next week or on a different
occasion.

-pedro

Julie Code wrote:
> > 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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>> >>
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