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