| canthus13 | wow. nobody has spoken in nearly 24 hours? | 03:27 |
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| Unit193 | Last was 23:33 | 03:58 |
| Unit193 | I think we all died! | 03:58 |
| Cheri703 | ? | 03:58 |
| Unit193 | what canthus13 said.... | 03:59 |
| Unit193 | Cheri703: Ready for christmas? | 04:50 |
| Cheri703 | pretty much | 04:50 |
| Unit193 | When did you get all shopping done? (I did today :) ) | 04:51 |
| * Cheri703 is poor, giving awesome cookies | 04:53 | |
| Unit193 | stuff to eat is always good | 04:55 |
| Cheri703 | indeed | 04:55 |
| canthus13 | Food? Mmm... | 04:58 |
| Unit193 | canthus13: Do you know much about other distros? | 05:04 |
| canthus13 | A little. | 05:05 |
| * canthus13 has used Gentoo, Debian, and Open Caldera a fair bit. | 05:06 | |
| canthus13 | ALso, Crunchbang. | 05:06 |
| Unit193 | I have somewhat of a list of ubuntu based lightweight ones... | 05:06 |
| Unit193 | some are: ZevenOS, Spri, U-Lite and OpenGEU | 05:07 |
| * canthus13 would look at Crunchbang. It's debian-based, but well done. | 05:07 | |
| canthus13 | It used to be Ubuntu-based. | 05:08 |
| canthus13 | Crunchbang prolly has more support than any of the ones you mentioned. | 05:08 |
| Unit193 | I'm more looking for lightweight then anything else... (mostly fast on no resources) | 05:09 |
| Unit193 | I don't think I ever found #! reqs | 05:10 |
| canthus13 | #! runs on some pretty low-specc'd systems. | 05:14 |
| canthus13 | Here's a thread with some of the systems people are running on: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/147/your-crunchbang-linux-system/ | 05:15 |
| canthus13 | There's a PII366 with 256MB ram on the first page... | 05:16 |
| canthus13 | and another one with 192MB ram. | 05:17 |
| Unit193 | post #18 | 05:18 |
| Unit193 | I mainly use it for remote and playing video | 05:19 |
| Unit193 | #290 about sums it up...(I think I may try #!) | 05:23 |
| canthus13 | Unit193: How much ram? | 05:29 |
| Unit193 | 128 | 05:34 |
| Unit193 | 500CPU and I think 4MB video | 05:34 |
| Unit193 | VLC doesn't seem to work as well as MPC-HC | 05:35 |
| canthus13 | 128MB ram might be a bit low. I did run a web server on a machine with those specs for a while, though. | 05:36 |
| Unit193 | Would I be better off not using linux? | 05:37 |
| canthus13 | Ehh... no. | 05:40 |
| canthus13 | Windows won't do it. | 05:40 |
| Unit193 | I use an alt shell (blackbox clone) so it's much faster then normal XP | 05:41 |
| canthus13 | Yeah, but 128MB for any version of XP is nuts. | 05:41 |
| canthus13 | You could definitely try it, though. I'm just thinking that the RAM might not be quite enough to really decode video. | 05:42 |
| canthus13 | You don't wanna be swapping in the middle of video decompression. :) | 05:43 |
| Unit193 | It sadly runs faster then any linux I tried (Video works as long as it's not streaming) | 05:43 |
| canthus13 | Weird. | 05:43 |
| Unit193 | That's why I'm going for micro linux | 05:43 |
| canthus13 | Every XP machine I"ve seen with less than 512 MB runs like crap. | 05:43 |
| canthus13 | Look at Tinycore. it might do what you need. | 05:43 |
| canthus13 | But if all else fails, and windows works, use windows. just don't connect it to the internet. | 05:44 |
| Unit193 | I don't normally use a browser (VNC/RDP/X for browsing and VLC/MPC-HC for video) | 05:45 |
| Unit193 | here is the kicker: I don't use anti-virus other then random online scans (they turn up no viruses because I don't browse) | 05:46 |
| Unit193 | So Lucid Puppy or #! is what I'm going to try on it first | 05:54 |
| canthus13 | Honestly, I'd set up that machine to be CLI/Framebuffer only. mplayer or VLC might work well in framebuffer mode on that machine. | 06:06 |
| canthus13 | I'd also see what I could do to max out the ram. | 06:07 |
| Unit193 | Looked at maxing out the ram and I don't know how to setup CLI/Framebuffer... | 06:08 |
| canthus13 | Just take a base debian install, no GUI. add apps as necessary. | 06:12 |
| canthus13 | Unit193: This blog is packed with low-spec machine linux goodness: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/ | 06:13 |
| Unit193 | Looking right now. You can watch video with no GUI? | 06:17 |
| canthus13 | Yup. | 06:18 |
| * canthus13 has done it. | 06:18 | |
| canthus13 | Getting the scaling right can be challenging sometimes. | 06:19 |
| Unit193 | Crunchbang looks good in Vbox (may put it on the lubuntu comp) | 17:40 |
| canthus13 | I've run it extensively in virtualbox. I'll install it on my laptop soon. I just need to be sure wireless will work correctly. | 17:49 |
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