Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 4:10 PM, silvioprog wrote: [...] > [2] https://img42.com/B9Y5b > [3] https://img42.com/U3hnt > Oops, it seems that img42 is offline now. I meant: [2] http://i.imgur.com/Ifd4vft.png [3] http://i.imgur.com/SDYg6Pi.png -- Silvio Clécio --

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

Il 14/02/2016 19:04, Bart ha scritto: In 2005 the first 64-bit Celeron D model saw light. Yes but it was a 2.6Ghz or something. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 12:14 PM, leledumbo wrote: > > So, do you have tips on which Linux flavour to install on this machine? > [...] > Anything with a WM instead of DE. I suggest Manjaro as it's Arch rolling > release philosophy managed under Debian style package

[Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

Hi, This is a bit off-topic. I have an ancient computer: Intel Celeron 700Mhz, 512MB RAM, 20GB IDE HD. (http://flyingsheep.nl/computer_nostalgie.htm#celeron700) (Hardware upgrades are not in the picture.) Up until now this system runs WindowsME. It used to be a dualboot system with Suse 10.0,

Re: [Lazarus] revision 51597 attn Ondrej

On 02/14/2016 03:01 PM, zeljko wrote: In that revision you added RecreateWnd() for modal forms. Why ? Now in console we have warnings about it... IMO: 1.it's wrong to call RecreateWnd() if handle isn't allocated yet There shuold be added if (popupMode = pmNone) and HandleAllocated, otherwise

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Bart wrote: As for WM's: I'm used to KDE, but that might probably be a bit too heavy fo this old beast, so I don't mind experimenting with another, more light weight, one. That being said, the OS should come with GTK2 (and maybe QT) libraries in order to have a functional

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 14:34:45 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >Alternatively, I run Debian "Lenny" with KDE on a number of machines of >that sort of spec. For later Debians consider XFCE irrespective of >system spec. > +1 from me on that one. My wife and I both run Debian (Wheezy on hers,

[Lazarus] revision 51597 attn Ondrej

In that revision you added RecreateWnd() for modal forms. Why ? Now in console we have warnings about it... IMO: 1.it's wrong to call RecreateWnd() if handle isn't allocated yet 2.HandleNeeded isn't really needed after RecreateWnd() So, because of warnings, something is wrong with that

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

On 14.02.2016 15:14, Bart wrote: > Hi, > > This is a bit off-topic. > > I have an ancient computer: Intel Celeron 700Mhz, 512MB RAM, 20GB IDE HD. > (http://flyingsheep.nl/computer_nostalgie.htm#celeron700) > (Hardware upgrades are not in the picture.) [snip] > So, do you have tips on which

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

Sven Barth wrote: On 14.02.2016 15:14, Bart wrote: Hi, This is a bit off-topic. I have an ancient computer: Intel Celeron 700Mhz, 512MB RAM, 20GB IDE HD. (http://flyingsheep.nl/computer_nostalgie.htm#celeron700) (Hardware upgrades are not in the picture.) [snip] So, do you have tips on

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

> So, do you have tips on which Linux flavour to install on this machine? Anything with a WM instead of DE. I suggest Manjaro as it's Arch rolling release philosophy managed under Debian style package repository versioning, try the Fluxbox, JWM or PekWM flavour from here:

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

Il 14/02/2016 15:14, Bart ha scritto: As for WM's: I'm used to KDE, but that might probably be a bit too heavy fo this old beast, so I don't mind experimenting with another, more light weight, one. That being said, the OS should come with GTK2 (and maybe QT) libraries in order to have a

Re: [Lazarus] 5dpo components last update

On Sa, 2016-02-13 at 20:12 +, Paulo Costa wrote: > On 13-Feb-16 09:27, Marc Santhoff wrote: > > Is that code for the user space driver open? Can you give a pointer, > > repository link or similar? > > http://www.linux-projects.org/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=0=30 Wonderful, thanks a

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

Giuliano Colla wrote: But, whichever OS you decide to pick up, if you're used to KDE, you might consider TDE as WM. It's nothing but the old faithful KDE 3.5 (which I've been happily running in a hardware setup similar to the one you mention) ported to the more recent distros, by a group of

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

On 2/14/16, Giuliano Colla wrote: > Another important thing to consider is 32bit architecture support: many > modern distros only support x86_64, to avoid the hassle of providing a > double for everything. I'm pretty sure that Intel never made a 64 bit > Celeron

Re: [Lazarus] revision 51597 attn Ondrej

On 14.02.2016 15:15, zeljko wrote: On 02/14/2016 03:01 PM, zeljko wrote: In that revision you added RecreateWnd() for modal forms. Why ? Now in console we have warnings about it... IMO: 1.it's wrong to call RecreateWnd() if handle isn't allocated yet There shuold be added if (popupMode =

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

On 2016-02-14 14:14, Bart wrote: > So, do you have tips on which Linux flavour to install on this machine? Choices, choices... Mine would be FreeBSD (or even PC-BSD) with JWM (Joe's Window Manager - this only requires 8MB to run). I've installed my FreeBSD when 9.0 came out and kept it up to date

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

Il 14/02/2016 16:34, Giuliano Colla ha scritto: That being said, the OS should come with GTK2 (and maybe QT) libraries in order to have a functional Lazarus. Another important thing to consider is 32bit architecture support: many modern distros only support x86_64, to avoid the hassle of