Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu

2016-01-21 Thread Jon Kleiser
ab.de> on behalf of O.Hamann <o.ham...@gmx.net> Sent: 19 January 2016 12:09 To: picolisp@software-lab.de Subject: Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu Xubuntu could work too. And it's possible to switch window systems later, too. On 18.01.2016 09:22, Jon Kleiser wrote: Hi Rick, Lubuntu looks very promisin

Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu

2016-01-19 Thread O.Hamann
Xubuntu could work too. And it's possible to switch window systems later, too. On 18.01.2016 09:22, Jon Kleiser wrote: Hi Rick, Lubuntu looks very promising. I think I have to give it a try. Thanks! /Jon On 17. Jan, 2016, at 22:10, Rick Hanson wrote: Hi Jon! On

Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu

2016-01-18 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi Rick, Lubuntu looks very promising. I think I have to give it a try. Thanks! /Jon > On 17. Jan, 2016, at 22:10, Rick Hanson wrote: > > Hi Jon! > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Jon Kleiser wrote: >> There is a chance I could have managed to

Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu

2016-01-18 Thread Antonio Bianco
I think you could also give it a try with the current 64bit version. I may be wrong, but what it means is that if you have more than 2Gb RAM, a 32bit system cannot address them and therefore you need 64bit, unless you enable big memory support that slows down the 32-bit system (that is what I

Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu

2016-01-17 Thread Rick Hanson
Hi Jon! On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Jon Kleiser wrote: > There is a chance I could have managed to run some 64-bit Linux on > this old Mac if I went for a non-GUI version, or a version that was > happy with only 1GB RAM, [...] If you like Ubuntu-ish and want to see

Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu

2016-01-17 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Jon, > My old Mac mini has an Intel Core 2 Duo, and that is supposed to be a > 64-bit machine. However, when I should pick the Ubuntu version for > this Mac from this page http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop both > the drop-down menus says "32-bit — for machines with less than 2GB > RAM".

Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu

2016-01-17 Thread Jon Kleiser
isp@software-lab.de> on behalf of Tomas Hlavaty <t...@logand.com> Sent: 17 January 2016 21:20 To: picolisp@software-lab.de Subject: Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu Hi Jon, > My old Mac mini has an Intel Core 2 Duo, and that is supposed to be a > 64-bit machine. However, when I should pick

Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu

2016-01-17 Thread Jon Kleiser
> Sent: 17 January 2016 08:08 To: picolisp@software-lab.de Subject: Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu Hi Jon, > I had an old Mac mini that I had given up as an OSX machine, as it had > only 1 GB RAM, and it was too difficult (or impossible?) to install more > ... > > One of the first thing

Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu

2016-01-17 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Jon, > model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz the processor is 64 bit: http://ark.intel.com/products/27255/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-T7200-4M-Cache-2_00-GHz-667-MHz-FSB so it should be possible to install 64 bit linux. Tomas -- UNSUBSCRIBE:

Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu

2016-01-16 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, > I had an old Mac mini that I had given up as an OSX machine, as it had > only 1 GB RAM, and it was too difficult (or impossible?) to install more > ... > > One of the first things I installed was PicoLisp, of course. I simply did the > > sudo apt-get install picolisp > > What I got