[SLUG] Lightweight distribution
G'day all, I'm looking for the right distro to install. I have a couple of laptops that I don't care if they break, so I can take out to work-sites where we're doing installations in sometimes less than hospitable circumstances. 1. Because they're old laptops, I need a fairly lightweight distribution - perhaps based on xfce or Enlightenment or similar. 2. There for things like network configuration troubleshooting, so support for media playback is of no consequence. 3. Because so many networks are wireless or hybrid with wireless, simple wireless support is essential. It seems to me from the distros I've tried, you can have condition 1 met, or condition 3. But not both - most of the lightweight distros seem to assume that one is rpepared to spend half-an-hour on each wireless network setting it up - and whilst I'm not a newbie, I don't really get off on always doing things the hard way. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- NetSense Computers logoRegards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 NetSense Computers (Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd) 79 Barney St (P. O. Box 423), Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Fax: +61 (0)2 4233 2781 Web: http://www.netsensecomputers.com.au -- This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete it and notify the sender. -- /At every moment he beholdeth a wondrous world, a new creation, and goeth from astonishment to astonishment, and is lost in awe at the works of the Lord of Oneness./ Baha'u'llah, The Seven Valleys ./.. humans are interesting. With all the wonders there are in the Universe, they invented boredom./ Terry Pratchet, Hogfather /The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed./ Albert Einstein /Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories./ Ray Bradbury attachment: edwinh.vcf-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Suggestions please
G'day all, I have an old laptop I'm planning to use at installation sites for a knockabout test laptop. It's a Toshiba Satellite L10: Pentium M 1.6GHz, 768MB RAM, 40GB HDD, Intel Pro 2200BG WLAN. I've tried several distributions on it so far, and getting a bit frustrated: * Ubuntu, Fedora CentOS install and run wireless (critical need) OK, but /*very*/ slowly * Lubuntu, Puppy, WattOS Knoppix run pretty quickly, but wireless is more than a little flaky - and slow to set up if it connects at all. I'm no longer a newbie, but neither do I want to have to play with command line configuration of wireless for every access point I set up! Am I really asking too much for a light distribution that will run quickly /*and*/ have simple support for wireless? If not, can anyone suggest a suitable distro? -- NetSense Computers logoRegards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 NetSense Computers (Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd) 79 Barney St (P. O. Box 423), Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Fax: +61 (0)2 4233 2781 Web: http://www.netsensecomputers.com.au -- This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete it and notify the sender. -- /At every moment he beholdeth a wondrous world, a new creation, and goeth from astonishment to astonishment, and is lost in awe at the works of the Lord of Oneness./ Baha'u'llah, The Seven Valleys ./.. humans are interesting. With all the wonders there are in the Universe, they invented boredom./ Terry Pratchet, Hogfather /The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed./ Albert Einstein /Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories./ Ray Bradbury attachment: edwinh.vcf-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Lightweight distribution
Depends what you are looking to do. Have you tried Puppy Linux? DSL - Damned Small Linux I agree wireless is harder on lighter distro's. Maybe that is the area that you need to Master. Then load that as a custom script. On 11/30/11, Edwin Humphries edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au wrote: G'day all, I'm looking for the right distro to install. I have a couple of laptops that I don't care if they break, so I can take out to work-sites where we're doing installations in sometimes less than hospitable circumstances. 1. Because they're old laptops, I need a fairly lightweight distribution - perhaps based on xfce or Enlightenment or similar. 2. There for things like network configuration troubleshooting, so support for media playback is of no consequence. 3. Because so many networks are wireless or hybrid with wireless, simple wireless support is essential. It seems to me from the distros I've tried, you can have condition 1 met, or condition 3. But not both - most of the lightweight distros seem to assume that one is rpepared to spend half-an-hour on each wireless network setting it up - and whilst I'm not a newbie, I don't really get off on always doing things the hard way. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- NetSense Computers logoRegards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 NetSense Computers (Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd) 79 Barney St (P. O. Box 423), Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Fax: +61 (0)2 4233 2781 Web: http://www.netsensecomputers.com.au -- This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete it and notify the sender. -- /At every moment he beholdeth a wondrous world, a new creation, and goeth from astonishment to astonishment, and is lost in awe at the works of the Lord of Oneness./ Baha'u'llah, The Seven Valleys ./.. humans are interesting. With all the wonders there are in the Universe, they invented boredom./ Terry Pratchet, Hogfather /The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed./ Albert Einstein /Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories./ Ray Bradbury -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Lightweight distribution
Hi, On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Edwin Humphries edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au wrote: 1. Because they're old laptops, I need a fairly lightweight distribution - perhaps based on xfce or Enlightenment or similar. Try Lubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu It's becomes an Ubuntu version for low-spec hardware. I use it on my 3-year old laptop and it works faster than Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity 2D Maxim. -- http://www.dataparksearch.org/ Twitter: @Maxime2 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
