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Mine if I drop a question with you linux-y guru's and enthousiasts ? I have a laptop right here who has 2 horribly out of date OS's on it. One of them is Windows XP by the looks of it, and the other is Ubuntu 6.XX Dapper Drake. Should I even TRY to install Raring Ringtail ? Or would Knoppix ( or Damn Small Linux ) be a probable better choice ? ... The laptop itself is from around 1999 I guess. It is able to give me Internet and some openDDT. Which is pretty much all I ask. Next to USB support for Webcams and harddisks and a DVD recovery sector by sector tool. Should I even bother with the latest Ubuntu for easy noob access ?
Sunday, 07-Jul-13 18:27:21 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker Put Chrome OS on there.
Sunday, 07-Jul-13 18:28:36 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Are you seriously saying that I should install google's remake of Ubuntu/Debian ? Why ?
Sunday, 07-Jul-13 18:30:00 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker I'm never /seriously/ saying anything. I just thought it might be interesting is all. You might have actual success trying the customized distros for the original EEEPC. You'd have to reconfigure X to use a reasonable sized screen, but they should run acceptably on that kind of hardware.
Sunday, 07-Jul-13 18:31:28 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark What about the botnet counter arguements for Chrome ?
Sunday, 07-Jul-13 18:32:30 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker A conspiracy theory isn't a counter argument, but unless you're checking the source of everything you install you'll never know either way
Sunday, 07-Jul-13 18:34:57 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Ah, well, yea. I do not know so much about this whole Google conspiracy theory to be honest.
Sunday, 07-Jul-13 18:43:34 UTC from web
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@critialcloudkicker I suggest installing Debian with a very light desktop environment like XFCE, LXDE or E17 (or simply a window manager like Openbox).
Sunday, 07-Jul-13 18:36:23 UTC from Choqok-
@broniebrown My brain exploded around XFCE
Sunday, 07-Jul-13 18:37:11 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker You can install a lot of different desktop variants on your linux. XFCE http://is.gd/wmj6X8 is one of them. You can also install all of them at once and choose at login which one you want to start. LXDE http://is.gd/KIdxI2 and E17 http://is.gd/sHTXvt are my other suggestions to use as the main desktop because of their low memory and CPU usage. When you have installed Debian without any Desktop you can type "apt-cache install xfce" to install E17 (for the others it is similar).
Sunday, 07-Jul-13 18:46:13 UTC from Choqok-
@broniebrown And 2 of them have X in the name yet they are written by the same toolkit as Gnome... Relearning lingo from the last time you touched Linux/Unix is a sore >_< ... Still I am glad I now have SO MUCH more choice than just Gnome or X back in the SuSe 4.0 days. I also did not have stable internet back then... hmmyea...
Sunday, 07-Jul-13 18:50:57 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker I can name a lot more desktop environments and window managers: razor-qt, KDE, Sugar, awesome, and many many more http://is.gd/LvpQ6P
Sunday, 07-Jul-13 19:04:33 UTC from Choqok-
@broniebrown Aww, Blackbox is dead... Is there a way to sort them by latest release date ?
Sunday, 07-Jul-13 19:07:21 UTC from web
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