![]() ![]() Their perception to the compile and install would equate too: why in the heck does it take 12 hours to install 1 application. Compiling takes a long time and most users don’t want to wait. Have a system that is going to binary installs. Its the visual familarity.Ģ) If a switch is going to occur. I do agree with one of the previous posters that IceWM would be a good choice (XP theme). Besides a DE on older hardware is going to probably be too resource intensive. However, most people are comfortable with their existing OS, aka: they don’t wish to learn or re-learn anything. Well, here are just a few random thoughts.ġ) New users are going to want a DE vs WM. So fellow Linux “commies”, we have the hardware, we have the knowledge, join me in the voodoo laptop resurrection! I’m pretty convinced it’ll be worth it, a really “modern” OS with firewall, no viri, office apps and stuff to play with for the cost of a Windows XP licence…. It worked so well that we decided to upgrade the laptop, we’ve purchased a new 80GB 8MB cache HDD, and more memory (another 128MB SODIMM) and await their delivery. ![]() ![]() ![]() The version of MEPIS I had included KDE 3.2 and quite a lot of good apps, Konqueror worked great, and even DVDs played without me having to tinker much with the settings (with only the occasional stutter). OMG! So I clicked the old MEPIS “install to HDD” and away it went, followed the usual installer and rebooted from the HDD. Yoper wouldn’t install due to limited disk space, Ubuntu crashed during install (media checked out btw) I suspect memory issues again, Vector Linux worked, but my girlfriend really didn’t like the minimalist desktop options (the new SOHO 5 looks like it might be worth a try though), so I was beginning to wonder which way to turn….DSLinux?įunny thing, I had a MEPIS live disk kicking around and for a laugh I stuck it in the drive and waited….and waited….and GOOD GRIEF it worked!! □ …well, sorta, but it was close enough to working for me to get busy on the terminal and kill off cups and samba deamons then re-start X and YES! KDE!! □ĪND to my almost trouser-raising pleasure, it actually functioned (KDE I mean). Mandrake and FC3, wouldn’t install, not even in textmode. Now the interesting part is that the Thinkpad only had 64MB of RAM (the horror!), AND a 4GB drive (steam driven thing too). …and so the story goes, I went a bit loopy and thought I’d try lots of disti’s for kicks. She gave up on it when 98 started getting all too many problems with viri and needed things like Kerio firewall and virus scanners constantly running, effectively killing the machine. It’s an IBM Thinkpad, old Celeron 333MHz, but it has a DVD rom and it should be ok for general stuff like browsing the net etc. I recently went on a disti-fest, trying out lots of different distributions on my girlfriends laptop. ![]()
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