Hello, Kieth.
My health problems have kept me from really participating on the list for a long time but I stayed as I want to get back to using Livecode at some point. Your question about linux distros for server use on old hardware though is something I can comment on. Sorry I did not post this earlier before you more or less made a decision. At first I though the suggestions made were terrible because you said it was old hardware. Then I realized the problem is I am old and the others who responded were not picturing machines from the mid 1990's unlike me. I would go along with the suggestions made, especially the Lubuntu one assuming your hardware can handle it. If it cannot please post a follow up with an idea of how old your hardware is and I will make some specific recommendations. Let us hope your machine is not so old we start talking about Slackware installations but if we do I will get you some help with it. :-) The best way to make Ubuntu more efficient is to use a desktop environment (DE) that is less fancy and therefore less resource intensive. (Any flavour of Ubuntu can make use of any DE just by installing some extra software packages. Keep that in mind if you for some reason need to change the DE.) We could make the system even more efficient by starting with a base Debian install and building it up piece by piece to what you need. (Ubuntu is Debian based by the way.) Not as newbie friendly as installing Lubuntu but not hard either. Just something I am throwing out there as a backup plan. We can discuss it if you need it, but you will probably be OK with trying Lubuntu, etc. Good luck. Post a follow up if your hardware cannot handle the initial suggestions and we discuss other options. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
