What would u put on this machine?
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- jokersloose
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What would u put on this machine?
1.8 GHz
512 ram
20 gig harddrive (looking for a bigger one)
Want to put a program that says it needs 80mg free hard drive space 32 meg of ram and maybe 3 to 4 gig of mp3's. And possibility warzone 2100 and pysol for games.
James
512 ram
20 gig harddrive (looking for a bigger one)
Want to put a program that says it needs 80mg free hard drive space 32 meg of ram and maybe 3 to 4 gig of mp3's. And possibility warzone 2100 and pysol for games.
James
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Re: What would u put on this machine?
Hi!
You need a distribution which does not need much resources (not KDE), I would try a live CD with Mint10 and if there are problems a live CD Mint9 LXDE.
seeley
You need a distribution which does not need much resources (not KDE), I would try a live CD with Mint10 and if there are problems a live CD Mint9 LXDE.
seeley
Re: What would u put on this machine?
I'd consider any Linux distrobutuon (with a bias towards mint) that has a lightweight desktop environment like LXDE, XFCE, Fluxbox, Openbox
Re: What would u put on this machine?
Hi!
Last year I tried some distributions on an old desktop computer like Mandriva, Fedora and Xubuntu (XFce, LXDE,...); after testing I installed Mandriva because it seamed to be the best one (MUD LXDE), but there could be problems with the support (the Mandriva Community was starting a new project, called Mageia).
lauren
Last year I tried some distributions on an old desktop computer like Mandriva, Fedora and Xubuntu (XFce, LXDE,...); after testing I installed Mandriva because it seamed to be the best one (MUD LXDE), but there could be problems with the support (the Mandriva Community was starting a new project, called Mageia).
lauren
- jokersloose
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Re: What would u put on this machine?
Well donwloaded the LXDE of Mint 9 going to try it on there. Only real issues I"m going to have is no net connection on that machine and no way to get one LOL '
Always making things hard me is LOL
James
Always making things hard me is LOL
James
Re: What would u put on this machine?
Try Bodhi with the Enlightenment desktop. It's a minimal Ubuntu based on 10.04 and you add your custom applications as you see fit. It is in the Alpha stage but from my experiences, fairly stable.
http://www.bodhilinux.com/
http://www.bodhilinux.com/
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Re: What would u put on this machine?
Please, I run the full version on my 1.5Ghz Acer laptop, and it runs fine. That is by no means "slow".
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Re: What would u put on this machine?
With only 32MB of RAM, I would use Damn Small Linux. I had it on an old laptop with 64MB of RAM and I was running Firefox and had 32MB that wasn't being used.
Re: What would u put on this machine?
A cup of coffee.
Sounds like it'd make a better coaster than a computer, lol. I'm just messing around. In a silly mood all of a sudden.
Sounds like it'd make a better coaster than a computer, lol. I'm just messing around. In a silly mood all of a sudden.
Re: What would u put on this machine?
The 32MB is the requirement of a program, not the computer's RAM, that is 512.
I would not install KDE on this machine, the other Mint flavours will run fine on it though Gnome 64-bit may have a little lack of RAM when running heavy programs.
I would not install KDE on this machine, the other Mint flavours will run fine on it though Gnome 64-bit may have a little lack of RAM when running heavy programs.
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