Rob Beard wrote: > Quoting Eddie Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Nice Vid, btw, Andrew (assuming you are the same Mr Oakley)
Yup, ta. > I was impressed too that all that runs on a 1.5GHz machine. I'm pretty sure that's down to stuffing as much old PC133 memory into the box as I can find. The trick is to run the Linux boot memory test utility overnight on any second-hand memory that falls my way! Most second-hand memory is second-hand for a reason. The NVidia GeForce2MX 64MB graphics card obviously helps with the 3D desktop. It is amazing how little omph you need to run Beryl/Compiz; almost anything that supports transparency will support Beryl/Compiz. Basically any old junk that can support DirectX 7 (yes, I know, a Microsoft standard, but an easy way to identify graphics card power). I also had an old 16MB 3DFX Voodoo Banshee card, but that was just too old, didn't support transparency and wouldn't run Beryl. If you don't want the 3D desktop, you really can get away with 800MHz CPUs etc, so long as you slap in lots of *reliable* memory, and that's still using Gnome. With Xubuntu I'd imagine you could even get something useful out of a 400MHz CPU and 64MB memory. Below 400MHz I think you'd have to either forgo the GUI, or use something really, really lightweight such as IceWM or Fluxbox. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LowMemorySystems One thing that I did, which I now regret doing, was to try to save oomph by installing only a minimal desktop; ie. starting with the server distro, installing the Gnome GUI by hand, and only installing the applications I thought I actually needed. For a while, this seemed like a good idea. Whilst this does save some resources, mostly all it saves is hard drive space, and hard drives are dirt cheap these days. What you end up with, is a non-standard looking desktop, which makes for a total nightmare when you later try to follow an Ubuntu tutorial. "Click this menu option, select that"... frequently doesn't work unless you've installed the full Ubuntu or Xubuntu distros. I documented my experience with Dapper 6.06 LTS here: http://aoakley.com/articles/2007-03-01.php > Did it use some sort of desktop video recording or a > TV output into a video capture card? ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=0GOlLJP_Knk ) Used RecordMyDesktop, no additional hardware required, saves direct to Ogg. Annoyingly, it was the overhead of RecordMyDesktop that caused the slight jerkiness on the video playback on the excerpt; it normally runs totally smooth even when rotating the cube with windowed video playback! The straw that broke the camel's back, I suppose. http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org It's on the repos. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
