Text 8953, 58 rader
Skriven 2007-01-13 12:11:12 av David Calafrancesco (1:2624/306.0)
   Kommentar till text 8932 av Andy Ball (1:261/38)
Ärende: Fun find from the past
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Andy Ball wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:


 AB> Hello David,

  DC> 64mb would be too little for Gnome or KDE, but might
    > be OK for a very stripped down text only system like a
    > firewall or something similar.

 AB> On NetBSD something like Blackbox would fit happily into 64 Mbytes
 AB> and leave room to spare for light applications.  I'd be surprised
 AB> if that were not also true on Linux.

Sure, DSL (Damn Small Linux) would be able to work. However, that isn't the
need to be satisfied here. What Holger seemed to be looking for was more akin
to a full fledged Linux workstation. Something that isn't Windows, but is more
current than most OS2 offerings and has a larger base of applications
available. 

DSL, while a fun thing to have and I love knowing that I can burn a credit card
78mb CD and have a live Linux system, isn't as easy to use and accessible to
non-linux heads as would be an Ubuntu system. The 256mb system will work, but
when you start pushing the system, will bog down on the ram and start heavy
swapping. I am on my way to get some more ram for my wife's PIII 800mhz laptop
as it only has 256mb and is swapping hard when she is running Opera, Firefox
and Thunderbird. 

I have had tremendous success putting Ubuntu (used to use Knoppix but Ubuntu
upgrades way better) into the hands of non-technical former windows users. They
only need a bit of guidance in order to understand what is happening. They
won't instantly turn into senior linux systems administrators and know how to
manage a large installation of servers, but then again, that is a good thing or
people like me wouldn't be making the big bucks :) 

  DC> The video only needs to be SVGA compatible. If it is,
    > then any linux will run on it.

 AB> 2D accelleration would definitely aid useability.

sure... but only if there were more in the way of memory. Without the ram, you
won't be taxing the video that hard. Basic word processing and browsing type
stuff doesn't really need that much in the way of video acceleration. 

Also, Ubuntu, like Knoppix, has a very good video chip detection system. If
there are 2d accelerators available for a chipset, and they aren't totally
proprietary, then it will likely have them built in and select them. Holger
won't need to know the chipset of the video chip. If there areen't, then the
SVGA driver will most likely work as well. Lastly, he can always purchase or
use an available PCI video card and disable the one onboard. I have used Matrox
boards in that role quite a bit, though more recently started working more with
nVidia and looking at ATI again. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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