Mark,
I agree on the apt-get. I also like the Internet install for Debian. I was
able to install Debian on an older 486 laptop using 3 diskettes and an
Internet connection with very little fuss. Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, and the
lot would not install because the processor was not a Pentium and they
needed a minimum of ~100 MB of RAM to install. *BSD also installed and ran
very well.
Have you tried Knoppix? I used it off the CD to backup a Win2K partition
(thanks to a lot of helpful hints from the list!) and it so far works very
well. I may try t install it on the hard drive. Everything is integrated
(Open Office, KDE, Knqueror etc), it is small (runs off a 700MB CDROM) and
is fast. You may find you like it for your Pentium.
Mark Phillips
Phillips Marketing, Inc.
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
480 945-0798
480 945-9197 fax
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-----Original Message-----
From: myers@fastq.com [SMTP:myers@fastq.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 1:12 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: RE: disto for laptop
Thanks, Mark. But the curious thing is, Lindows is based on Debian. Maybe
I'll
try Lindows 3.1 beta. The thing I REALLY like about Debian is apt-get.
Lindows
did not detect my soundcard (though it did detect my SMC PCMCIA card (no
other
distro sets it up properly)). So I did an apt-get on "sndconfig." Ran
sndconfig
and away I went! It was kinda cool.
Other than the speed issue, I personally think Lindows is ideal for a
laptop.
Mark M.
Quoting Mark Phillips <
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>:
> Mark,
>
> I ran into the same problems with my old Inspiron 3000 (233 MHz Pentium
> MMX, 148 MB RAM, 6 GB hard drive). I had the same issue with Redhat 7.3,
> but I had to rebuild the kernel since it would not recognize my pcmcia
> cards. When I recompiled the kernel I tried to optimize it for Pentium
MMX,
> but I noticed very little if any speed improvement. I then installed
> Mandrake 8.2 and it is much faster, and Debian is even faster (even using
> X).
>
> In addition, Mandrake and Debian did a much better job with the NeoMagix
> video chips - the fonts are much crisper and the whole screen "pops" just
> as it did with Windows. (I think Redhat 7.3 used an earlier version of
> Xfree, so that was probably the problem with the display, and I never
tried
> to install a new version and I am not sure what Redhat 8 uses).
>
> Mark Phillips
> Phillips Marketing, Inc.
> mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
> 480 945-0798
> 480 945-9197 fax
>
> No trees were destroyed in the sending of this contaminant free message,
> however, a significant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: myers@fastq.com [SMTP:myers@fastq.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:47 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: disto for laptop
>
> I have a Compaq Armada 7792DMT laptop w/96 MB RAM and 5 GB hard disk. It
> has a
> Pentium 266M processor (not PII). I have installed RedHat 8 & Lindows 3
on
> it
> (yes, I paid $99 for a Linux distro) but they both seem very slow. The
only
> OSes that I get to run a a decent speed are Mandrake and Win2K.
> I really want to use RedHat 8 on it. After install, if I recompile the
> kernel,
> will that help my speed issues? I know it is never going to be blazing
in
> X,
> but it really shouldn't take 15 seconds to get the reply window up when
> replying to an e-mail in Evolution.
> TKIA.
>
> Mark Myers
>
>
>
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