Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:26:01 -0400
From: Rick Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: RedHat Fedora 4 on the L110...

Much faster than Win2k. I haven't had 95/98 installed on this Libretto
ever...my only experience with those was with my old Libretto which I had
when the 100ct came out. So, I can't really say about those.
 I've been running the Link2 graphical web browser (
http://links.twibright.com/) and twm and it's really fast. A minimal install
is definitely a good idea, though. 64mb is just not that much memory.
Firefox runs, but is slightly slow...I'm used to blazing (P4) internet
browsing so I don't use it much. In all, I'd say the setup works really
well.
 Next, I plan to try to play mpeg videos...I'm hoping that with either light
compression or just darn small resolutions I'll be able to play movies...
 On 10/20/05, carval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:53:25 GMT
> From: "carval" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: RedHat Fedora 4 on the L110...
>
> Hi
> How is the performance? (w/ Fedora C4)
> Is it faster than Windows 98se? Win 2k?
>
> thaxs
>
>
> From: Rick Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: RedHat Fedora 4 on the L110...
>
> I was completely successful in my install finally. I did not remove
> the hard drive from the Libretto, and I only used the floppy and the
> Backpack cdrom drive that originally came with the 110ct. Basically I
> created a dos partition using freedos to which I copied the iso files
> for the disks. Then I started Slinky, a variant of busybox linux
> designed to install Fedora on low resource machines. The catch is,
> Slinky has problems supporting the PCMCIA cd drive as well as all the
> (low-quality) network cards I threw at it. I spent a long time copying
> over modules through the dos partition in an attempt to make it work,
> but I couldn't, so I just used the iso method. Aside from that, it was
> pretty simple (though it took me forever and a million reboots to
> actually do it). Slinky installs ultra-minimum packages so I spent
> awhile first with RPM, then with Yum installing all sorts of things.
> My Libretto is happy now, though :)
>
>
>
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-Rick


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