Re: [LUAU] Price of freedom is a $50 saving
Peter Besenbruch wrote: The base Dell laptop comes with 512 meg. of RAM, good to go for Ubuntu, that's for sure. My daughter's school laptop has been going strong for two years. Jim Thompson wrote: 512MB may be enough, but 256MB is not. I just loaded xubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 2600 for my father (it had belonged to my step mother.) It has 256MB and a 1GHz p3. Neither Ubuntu or kubuntu would successfully install on it. Debian installs fine with 256 meg. KDE runs as well, once installed. Is it the extra overhead of the live CD? -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] Price of freedom is a $50 saving
Jim Thompson wrote: Peter Besenbruch wrote: The base Dell laptop comes with 512 meg. of RAM, good to go for Ubuntu, that's for sure. My daughter's school laptop has been going strong for two years. 512MB may be enough, but 256MB is not. I just loaded xubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 2600 for my father (it had belonged to my step mother.) It has 256MB and a 1GHz p3. Neither Ubuntu or kubuntu would successfully install on it. Jim ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau Probably the 256Mb isn't enough for the larger graphical desktops. I have a Sceptre laptop, P3 800 MHz with 512 Mb RAM that took Suse/KDE with no problem. That was, until my daughter decided that it was too slow for her and slammed the top closed and killed the hard drive. Now my eldest son has it and simply loves it (he has more patience). I'm running Mepis 6.0.4 and 6.5 on my six computers here. My laptop (Dell D600) has 6.5 and I've been very happy with this distribution. I started looking for something else when I got fed up with the RPM methodology. I like the Debian package management much better. I like Mepis much better because there is a root account, it was the only distro that found and set up my wireless card in the laptop (I removed the Broadcom and installed an Intel a/b/g card), updates are so easy that my wife is doing her own now. I also like that fact that I can easily install a new version and keep all the home directories intact. Dave ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] Price of freedom is a $50 saving
On Friday, May 25, 2007, at 05:55 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: I just loaded xubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 2600 for my father (it had belonged to my step mother.) It has 256MB and a 1GHz p3. Neither Ubuntu or kubuntu would successfully install on it. The alternate installer should work. We've been using it at Liholiho because we don't have anything with more than 256MB. We would love to experience Ubuntu7 on something with 512MB or 1GB :-) http://mirrors.hosef.org/ubuntu-cd/releases/7.04/ either ubuntu-7.04-alternate-amd64.iso or ubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso --Peter ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] Price of freedom is a $50 saving
Peter Besenbruch wrote: Peter Besenbruch wrote: The base Dell laptop comes with 512 meg. of RAM, good to go for Ubuntu, that's for sure. My daughter's school laptop has been going strong for two years. Jim Thompson wrote: 512MB may be enough, but 256MB is not. I just loaded xubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 2600 for my father (it had belonged to my step mother.) It has 256MB and a 1GHz p3. Neither Ubuntu or kubuntu would successfully install on it. Debian installs fine with 256 meg. KDE runs as well, once installed. Is it the extra overhead of the live CD? possibly. The 'issue' is that the most of the folks at whom Ubuntu is aimed won't be able to install KDE on a running debian system. None of them will be running 'debbootstrap' by hand. jim ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] Project Indiana: Binary distro of OpenSolaris is coming...
Julian Yap wrote: http://blogs.sun.com/aland/entry/svosug_project_indiana_get_the Ian Murdock, Chief Operating Platform Strategist for Sun Microsystems, will be talking about and explaining Project Indiana. Project Indiana is a binary distribution of OpenSolaris which Ian plans to work on in an open environment, with a community on OpenSolaris.org. See also: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=118803#118803 ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
