On 02/25/2016 11:27 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > Den 2016-02-26 kl. 04:11, skrev Israel: >> On 02/25/2016 04:54 PM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The true meaning of: an image worth 1000 words :D >>> >>> -- >>> Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us." >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad> >>> >> Great news! >> That said, I think we should continue developing the Debian version, as >> it has more updated software and supports older processors for longer :) >> >> -- >> Regards >> >> > Hi Ali and Israel, > > Great news that we can base ToriOS on Ubuntu, Ali :-) > > I think we should ask all Toriosadores, which version (based on Ubuntu > or based on Debian) they prefer, and why they prefer it. That way we > should find out what is missing in either of the versions. > > Your view is very important Israel. As the main developer, your feeling > of what works best is of course very important. But we should not judge > Ubuntu only based on Precise. There is also Trusty, and very soon also > Xenial will be released, and all of them have long time support (for 5 > years). > > Lubuntu Xenial works with the boot option forcepae in my old IBM > Thinkpad with Pentium M without a PAE flag, so even if Ubuntu has > abandoned the non-pae kernels, it can be used with almost all CPUs, that > run today (including Pentium 3). What is also important is how the > hardware drivers for old computers are available in Debian and Ubuntu, > and I think the only way to find out is to ask people to test in old > computers. > > Best regards > Nio > Hi Nio, Xenial and Debian are very similar in their underlying setup (using systemd) Xenial, however already has yad, but I have already added yad into Debian with no noticable differences from xenial.
Personally since Debian has the i586 kernel (the same kernel we want in precise with non pae support) I think it would be a better choice for the initial release. It will be supported much longer AFAIK than precise and does most everything we already need. I will need to install a few more things by default (non free firmware for USB wifi dongles, maybe others?) I discovered this with my RaLink Wifi usb dongle. The package for it is quite small, so it is a small expense for such a big benefit. We will do all the configuring and setup to make Debian 'Linux for Human Beings' as Ubuntu did. We are kinda redoing the initial Ubuntu project in a way.... more like 'Linux for Human Beings that have old computers like me' :) But so far my testing is that is performs much the same as precise did on my P4. Watching DVDs and streaming video is a bit hard with so little memory in the computer, but it does work. The 128MB computer probably cannot do it, but I have not tested it quite yet. Some things seem to work better, but that could simply be that I have continued to tweak and improve our programs. I also need to install pm-utils for our suspend scripts, or maybe just offer to install it. -- Regards -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
