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