Try last knoppix wich uses as default LXDE desktop I run this system sucessfully on 300 mhz processor, 164 Mb ram. Take a long time to startup but later has an usable speed, runing from CD, installing on HD will have higher speed.
Marco Achury www.achury.com.ve El 07/10/2013 03:13 p.m., Louis Santillan escribió: > The mini cd is also under 30mb to download. > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD > > -L > > On Monday, October 7, 2013, dmccunney wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Richards, Toby > <toby.richa...@slo.courts.ca.gov <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > If I were to find a use for FreeDOS, it would be to eventually > get a Hyperterminal-like program running in OpenGEM. Laptops with > serial ports are rare these days, and the ones we have are so old > that even XUbuntu runs slow. > > Don't run Xubuntu. I went through that with an ancient notebook. > Xubuntu would install and technically run, but was snail slow. > > Posters on the Ubuntu forums suggested the Ubuntu had a steadily > advancing idea of what "low end" was, and that too much Gnome had > crept into Xubuntu. They suggested what I did: get the minimal CD, > install to get a working CLI environment, then pick and choose other > things via apt-get. Lxde run on an ext4 file system is usable. > > And you may not want the latest Ubuntu release. I had to wipe and > start over from scratch after attempting to upgrade to 13.04. It > turns out the kernel in that release requires PAE support that my old > machine doesn't have. But the upgrade didn't check for that till the > last step of installing the kernel. The kernel install failed, the > video system was hosed on reboot, and re-doing from scratch was the > only real solution. > > > -Toby > ______ > Dennis > https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get > the most from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and > register > > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net <javascript:;> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
