Linux on Pentium era systems

[Warren Luebkeman]

I have decided to try Xubuntu.  To get it to boot off the CDROM I used a cool 
little program called Super Boot Manager, which enabled me to boot off a 
number of devices.  It was a pain to get the Debian installer to run on such 
little RAM, but fortunately it gives you enough configuration options that 
you can get the memory overhead for the installer low enough so that it will 
run.  

Xubuntu is supposed to be a lower resource hog, more efficient version of 
Ubuntu, or in other words, does not use Gnome or KDE.  I'll let you know what 
happens.  

On Thursday 16 August 2007 3:25 pm, Tom Buskey wrote:
> On 8/16/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/16/07, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> > > ... whey do you need a modern kernel?
> >
> >   A lot of wireless chipsets only work with the latest kernels.  Or so
> > I understand.  Maybe backported drivers are available.
>
> Sure.  I had to upgrade Mandrake to get my wireless card back then.  And
> RedHat 7 didn't work either.  That's basically the sticking point here.
>
>
>   There's also the question of security updates, which can be an issue
>
> > for things like web browsing.  But one could always download the
> > stand-alone binary of Firefox from the Mozilla site.
>
> Sure.  It might be that a current version doesn't work with the older
> libraries w/o a recompile.  IIRC there was a change somewhere around RH 6
> -> 7.
> Another GUI browser that doesn't have the security issues might be possible
> too.
>
> There's also the issue of flash, java, etc.

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