forgot to mention... I was thinking about putting Gentoo on the box, but would like to have something running by Monday (maybe I need to look at Distcc this weekend too... ), and don't want to have to manually set up the X server / KDE, etc.
On Saturday 29 January 2005 19:04, Shawn wrote: > I'm looking for a decent distro to put onto an older laptop (Acer > TravelMate 512DX), with only a 4GB drive. The target system will be used > for software development, so will need a development environment. It > should also have a graphical interface, but doesn't strictly need KDE or > Gnome (though the base files might be needed for some of the development > tools - KDevelop for instance). The disto should be pretty lean, but still > robust enough to handle the above tasks. > > Thus far, we've tried Suse 9.2, VidaLinux (install failed), and Ubuntu > (Live CD - networking problems with it). We'll keep trying things over the > weekend, but maybe someone will have suggestions for another disto well > suited for this laptop? (NOTE: This is NOT a call for a distro war.. > <grins>) > > Thanks for any ideas. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
