Finally managed to get my hands on some P2 350s with 64 MB and 4 GB. CDROM thrown in too. (atleast in one of them). it has 98 for now, but planning to use a stripped down version of ubuntu. if there was ever such a thing.
My basic (and probably only requirements are) 1) Wine 2) The two browsers. FF and IE. 3) a teeny .exe application that will be run over wine just like IE.
Am pretty sure the above config should meet those needs, but is there any further stripping i need to do while installing the standard ubuntu 6.06 dapper drake to make it more lightweight?
thanks abhi
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Quoting Abhishek Daga abhishekdaga@yahoo.com:
Finally managed to get my hands on some P2 350s with 64 MB and 4 GB. CDROM thrown in too. (atleast in one of them). it has 98 for now, but planning to use a stripped down version of ubuntu. if there was ever such a thing.
My basic (and probably only requirements are)
- Wine
- The two browsers. FF and IE.
- a teeny .exe application that will be run over wine just like IE.
most distros will allow a minimal install.. use what you like and are comfortable with (for instance try fc6 with xfce). For IE on linux see http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page (i haven't tried it but the lack of java support is discouraging).
- dhawal
On 18-Dec-06, at 11:21 PM, Dhawal Doshy wrote:
For IE on linux see http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/ Main_Page (i haven't tried it but the lack of java support is discouraging).
have tried it - and it is meant only for testing html and css - and does it well, crashes where IE should crash. Incidently, from what i can see on the downloads page for IE, running IE on linux is a violation of the IE EULA. Aparently this is true even if one pays for IE.
On 12/18/06, Abhishek Daga abhishekdaga@yahoo.com wrote:
Am pretty sure the above config should meet those needs, but is there any further stripping i need to do while installing the standard ubuntu 6.06 dapper drake to make it more lightweight?
If you want lightweight and fast on the config you've mentioned then I'd suggest something on the lines of Debian/Gentoo/Slackware. You can get as minimalistic as possible with nothing more than a WM like blackbox/fluxbox and your browsers, etc.
If you don't have those distro CDs on hand then you'll probably have to fire up apt-get/aptitude/synaptic to spend a night removing everything you don't want.
I've had a minimal box on Celeron 500 MHz albeit with much more RAM (192 MB). It used to run KDE/Gnome a little slowly and XFCe was quite good. Blackbox was fast as a storm.
Regards, Siddhesh
On 18-Dec-06, at 11:26 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
I've had a minimal box on Celeron 500 MHz albeit with much more RAM (192 MB). It used to run KDE/Gnome a little slowly and XFCe was quite good. Blackbox was fast as a storm.
for the last three years i have been comfortably running mandrake 10 on a celeron 400 with 96 mb ram and 4 gb harddisk. Including Oo, zope, apache, postgresql and what have you. On Kde. Little slow to load Oo, but ok after it loads
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 06:42, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 18-Dec-06, at 11:26 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
I've had a minimal box on Celeron 500 MHz albeit with much more RAM (192 MB). It used to run KDE/Gnome a little slowly and XFCe was quite good. Blackbox was fast as a storm.
for the last three years i have been comfortably running mandrake 10 on a celeron 400 with 96 mb ram and 4 gb harddisk. Including Oo, zope, apache, postgresql and what have you. On Kde. Little slow to load Oo, but ok after it loads
Pentium 1 166MHz MMX. 64MB RAM. 1G of HDD. OS Debian Sarge 3.1. Runs everything just fine. Haven't tried running X but from the looks of it, it should run GNOME without much lag.
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 16:41, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 06:42, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 18-Dec-06, at 11:26 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
I've had a minimal box on Celeron 500 MHz albeit with much more RAM (192 MB). It used to run KDE/Gnome a little slowly and XFCe was quite good. Blackbox was fast as a storm.
for the last three years i have been comfortably running mandrake 10 on a celeron 400 with 96 mb ram and 4 gb harddisk. Including Oo, zope, apache, postgresql and what have you. On Kde. Little slow to load Oo, but ok after it loads
Pentium 1 166MHz MMX. 64MB RAM. 1G of HDD. OS Debian Sarge 3.1. Runs everything just fine. Haven't tried running X but from the looks of it, it should run GNOME without much lag.
Was running woody on a 486 66 mhz 16 mb. No X rated stuff. Later increased ram to 24MB. X crawled at glacial speed.Should try out microwindows. I still have the mobo for som isa ice cards. unfortunately the ide card pins are black. So i will have to setup nfsboot on ne2000 isa with bootrom or floppy.
Dear Abhishek,
On 12/18/06, Abhishek Daga <abhishekdaga at yahoo dot com> wrote:
Finally managed to get my hands on some P2 350s with 64 MB and 4 GB. CDROM thrown in too. (atleast in one of them). it has 98 for now, but planning to use a stripped down version of ubuntu. if there was ever such a thing.
Try Damn Small Linux (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/) it supports HDD Install and very light.
My basic (and probably only requirements are)
- Wine
- The two browsers. FF and IE.
- a teeny .exe application that will be run over wine just like IE.
DSL is Debian based and after installation you can use apt to install whatever you want.
Am pretty sure the above config should meet those needs, but is there any further stripping i need to do while installing the standard ubuntu 6.06 dapper drake to make it more lightweight?
According to DSL site, all you need is 486 with 16 MB of RAM!
No need to reinvent the wheel.
thanks abhi
With regards,
2006/12/18, Abhishek Daga abhishekdaga@yahoo.com:
Finally managed to get my hands on some P2 350s with 64 MB and 4 GB. CDROM thrown in too. (atleast in one of them).
I'm currently running Debain GNU/Linux etch RC1 (with linux kernel 2.6.17) on my P2 266MHz, 256 MB RAM, 2 GB HDD, CDROM+Floppy system.
it has 98 for now, but planning to use a stripped down version of
ubuntu.
The minimum requirement for Debian GNU/Linux etch is 32MB RAM (It is 24 if you go for sarge) and 256MB Hard Disk space.
I'm running WindowMaker now and it works awesome (I used to run GNOME but had toremove it as I needed Open Office and GNU/Hurd in the 2 GB). I have 1.1 GB for GNU/Linux
if there was ever such a thing.
My basic (and probably only requirements are)
- Wine
I have tried it in my office desktop
2) The two browsers. FF and IE.
Again used to use IE for some intranet resources that only works with IE.
3) a teeny .exe application that will be run over wine just like IE.
If it is small one it should not cause any problems.
Am pretty sure the above config should meet those needs, but is there
any further stripping i need to do while installing the standard ubuntu 6.06 dapper drake to make it more lightweight?
I would suggest Debian/Gentoo/slackware/DSL rather than re-inventing the wheel as suggested by others.
Cheers Praveen
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