-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/07 23:27, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 25 > May 2007 12:15:17 -0500 > > On 05/25/07 11:32, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote (portions deleted): > >> > have installed Windows and booted live Linux CD's. Ubuntu Dapper Drake > >> > stalled with a KDE desk error. > > RJ> What kind of error? > > It halted with the beige screen of death with a small box saying KDE > Desk Error if I remember correctly. At the time I was just seeing which > CDROM would be successful while waiting for the replacement drive.
Argh, I mis-read desk for *disk*. Never mind. [snip] > > Two vital questions are: > > 1. How much RAM does the laptop have? Probably not much. > > 128 MB (Since it is probably not much, I did set aside a 2 GB partition > for a swap partition.) Figured. You'll need something lighter-weight than even Xfce (which is based on getting-heavy GTK2 and leaks memory). There have recently been a couple of threads regarding people's preferences in light-weight WMs. Also, I prefer swap *files*, since they are more flexible. > 2. How much experience do you have with Linux? > > I have Debian Sarge running on a Gateway 500 Pentium III 500 MHZ which > also dual boots via LILO into Windows 98SE. > > I have Debian Etch which is sharing the box with Windows XP Pro dual > booting under GRUB. A little behind the times, no? > That box has a Pentium 4 Prescott at 3.2 GHZ. Ah, a space heater! > I have enough experience to get good and lost! Don't we all... > RJ> Xubuntu might be good choice to install, even though you might then > RJ> have to install a lighter-weight window manager. > > As old as this equipment is, a light weight window manager such as xfce > on top of Debian or Xubuntu may indeed be the way to go. Hardware detection will be the tricky part, I think. *buntu is still better at it than straight Debian. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGV8UES9HxQb37XmcRAsdHAKCNW8HEaoOjVpIrancewRFbt064oQCeKxVY ynsf70B0G5Mmt7az5FN01Wo= =pdR+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
