Thanks all for your thoughts.I have tried Windowmaker as one of the lightweight window managers meanwhile on my own laptop, it loads indeed extremely fast compared to my usual KDE, but at first sight I can't possibly imagine this into a desktop a kid would like to use. After all, the idea is to
Hi All,A friend asked me to install some operating system on an old Dell laptop he got for free. The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be used by his young children.
I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks nice, has a lot of very usefull stuff for kids, but it
Karl Huysmans wrote:
Hi All,
A friend asked me to install some operating system on an old Dell
laptop he got for free.
The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will
be used by his young children.
I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks nice, has a lot of very
On 12 October 2006 12:21, Karl Huysmans wrote:
Hi All,
A friend asked me to install some operating system on an old Dell laptop
he got for free.
The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be
used by his young children.
I have tried to install Edubuntu on it,
So I was thinking Gentoo, optimized for PII, I guess -Os would be a
good option for this little machine. Any thoughts anyone?
What about the desktop? I guess Gnome or KDE is not really the best
choice. But what else could I use? Of course, it's for kids, so I have
to be able to make it look
On 10/12/06, Karl Huysmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,A friend asked me to install some operating system on an old Dell laptop he got for free. The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be used by his young children.
I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks
Karl Huysmans wrote:
Hi All,
A friend asked me to install some operating system on an old Dell laptop
he got for free.
The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be
used
by his young children.
I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks nice, has a lot of very
I've also used -O2 on my Pentium 2 Celeron system without any problems.
I used to run -Os back on my Pentium 200Mhz days, and that works fine
too ;).
Honestly, however I never did any benchmarking between the different -O
settings on any of these machines, so I'm not sure they were the best
i use xubuntu on an old laptop, and it's quite snappy.
although i'm sure you could get snappier results with gentoo
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Karl Huysmans wrote:
Hi All,
A friend asked me to install some operating system on an old Dell laptop
he got for free.
The laptop has a pentium 2 400
A solution for this old computer to install it quickly is to use
anothoer computer for compiling it
after just use the binary package results !
On another gentoo or any other system else, create a directory,
decompress stage 1 and start an install like you will do on old machine
After, just
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