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i use xubuntu on an old laptop, and it's quite snappy. |
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although i'm sure you could get snappier results with gentoo |
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, 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 laptop |
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> 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 be used |
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> 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 good |
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> 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 choice. |
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> But what else could I use? Of course, it's for kids, so I have to be able to |
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> make it look nice :-) What would be a good window manager? File manager? |
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> Other applications that help to keep it lean an 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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