[GLLUG] Re: Debian on My Laptop

Fri Apr 20 04:48:34 EDT 2007

I would suggest blackbox. It is what flux is based off of and is a bit lighter.

On 4/19/07, Wald <pdwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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