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Karl Huysmans wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell |
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> laptop he got for free. |
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> The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will |
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> be used by his young children. |
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> I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks nice, has a lot of very |
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> usefull stuff for kids, but it really runs too slow on this machine. |
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> So I was thinking Gentoo, optimized for PII, I guess -Os would be a |
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> good option for this little machine. Any thoughts anyone? |
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> What about the desktop? I guess Gnome or KDE is not really the best |
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> choice. But what else could I use? Of course, it's for kids, so I have |
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> to be able to make it look nice :-) What would be a good window |
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> manager? File manager? Other applications that help to keep it lean an |
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> fast? |
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> Anyone with any experience building such a system under Gentoo? |
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> Thank you |
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> Karl |
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I run gentoo on a p2 laptop, using fluxbox for wm. Its slow but mostly |
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usable although I mostly use it as a chat client so it rarely gets to |
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run anything other than xchat and gaim and a few xterm windows and |
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synergy (synergy2 project on sourceforge) for seamless access from my |
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main machine. Fluxbox and the rest in its family (blackbox and openbox) |
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are alright looking but I guess they do look a bit dated in comparison |
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to the latest offerings. You might want to try fvwm-crystal, never used |
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it myself but saw an article on it the other day, it is supposed to be |
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relatively lightweight and nice looking. In general be prepared for LONG |
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emerges though, compiling anything of size takes a long time. I use |
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distcc to speed that up a bit. |
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Eugene. |
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