On 2016-02-14 14:14, Bart wrote: > So, do you have tips on which Linux flavour to install on this machine?
Choices, choices... Mine would be FreeBSD (or even PC-BSD) with JWM (Joe's Window Manager - this only requires 8MB to run). I've installed my FreeBSD when 9.0 came out and kept it up to date with every release, all the way to 10.1 and it is still running rock solid. Uptimes are always around 3-4 months, until I do routine [physical] cleaning of the box (dust etc). You can install any libraries you want with 'pkg install xxx' or via FreeBSD's ports system. The "pkg" tool will do library dependency resolution for you - just like Linux's apt-get or yum. For file management I prefer Midnight Commander (console) and PCManFM (GUI) - both very light on resources. For image viewing I use Eye of Mate or Geeqie - the latter is really nice, and again every light on resources. I run nVidia's drivers which gives excellent performance, but the open source Intel, AMD and nVidia drivers are okay too. Sound and things like VLC works perfectly for watching TV episodes, or recording desktop screen casts etc. If you want a more bloated "desktop environment" system (thus uses much more resources with little benefit), then simply install Mate (what used to be Gnome 2) or KDE. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus