oh.. operating systems..
just had over a month of being on road and having to keep technologically cheap
yet light..
hence still suffering android..
am i missing something or there is a complete and utter absence of
quality free operating system for mobile devices?
rant apart 😃 if people need a light, Graphical and upto date os for an
old netbook laptop etc
maybe check puppylinux,?
you can get, in a sense, latest ubuntu or slackware running on an old or new
netbook
without habing to deal with the commandline bits..
ciao from brasilia.
aharon
xxx
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Sent from myMail for AndroidMonday, 22 May 2017, 10:22pm -03:00 from Alan
Sondheim sondh...@panix.com (mailto:sondh...@panix.com):
It installed quickly for me. I think there's a way to get a graphic os on
it but I haven't tried. Used to use Cygwin and still have it!
- Alan
On Tue, 23 May 2017, James Morris wrote:
> It's only really the command line tools (which is still a lot!).
>
> I got quite excited about it at work where I'm using a few BASH scripts with
> Cygwin on a regular basis. Unfortunately the Windows 10 Anniversary update
> which contains the Linux tools consistently fails to install - and takes 3/4
> hour to not install :-(
>
>
>
>
>
> On 22/05/17 23:40, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>>
>> Fwiw, one thing worth noting - for those who are using limited memory (like
>> my netbook), Midori's an excellent browser -
>> Also wanted to mention that you can open up Ubuntu in Win10 - I have it
>> working there as well. It comes with the OS,
>>
>> - Alan
>>
>> On Mon, 22 May 2017, helen varley jamieson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> thanks alan :)
>>>
>>> i have noticed how much less space the OS needs, & how quickly everything
>>> runs!
>>>
>>> h : )
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22.05.2017 18:59, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>>>
>>> I use linux on my older laptops; it's easy to install; in fact
>>> I'm on a Dell netbook now with only 2 gig of ram and it runs
>>> fine. One good thing about the OS is that you can install a
>>> different one in maybe 15 minutes, so you can tailor the linux
>>> distro to your needs. Fwiw, I use linux mint for the most part,
>>> lots of terminal stuff.
>>>
>>> Good luck with this!
>>>
>>> - Alan
>>>
>>> On Mon, 22 May 2017, helen varley jamieson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> hi everyone,
>>>
>>> more than a year ago i wrote to this list asking for
>>> advice about buying a
>>> linux laptop. it took me a while, but i'm now
>>> happily working with ubuntu
>>> mate on a no-brand machine :)
>>>
>>> i spent quite a lot of time looking at second-hand &
>>> B-ware (ex-display)
>>> machines, & also at new models (lenovo, dell, hp,
>>> acer, asus, etc etc ... )
>>> & got quite overwhelmed by the choice & variables.
>>> nothing was exactly what
>>> i wanted, & i couldn't decide on what to compromise.
>>> i had a couple of
>>> things that were definite - not bigger than 14",
>>> must have ethernet port,
>>> prefereably separate audio in & out; so that
>>> narrowed things down quite a
>>> bit, but still i wasn't finding anything that felt
>>> right.
>>>
>>> then i found a uk company that sells no-brand
>>> laptops with linux
>>> pre-installed (https://www.entroware.com (https://www.entroware.com)). i
>>> could
>>> choose the hard drive,
>>> RAM, keyboard layout, etc & it arrived 5 days after
>>> i ordered it. i took it
>>> out of the box, turned it on, & started using it.
>>> the trickiest thing i've
>>> had to do so far was use the command line to get it
>>> to talk nicely to my
>>> printer - & i managed that without incident.
>>>
>>> i'm still adjusting to the non-mac keyboard
>>> shortcuts - it's easier to take
>>> a screenshot but more difficult to do an umlaut (?),
>>> & there are a couple of
>>> things i still need to work out. & one loss is that
>>> there are no linux
>>> drivers for my wireless webcam, so i'm back to a
>>> tethered webcam for now.
>>> but it is soooo much faster than my old mac, & i've
>>> found most of the
>>> software that i need.
>>>
>>> so if anyone else out there is also considering
>>> making the switch to linux,
>>> i say - just do it! :)
>>>
>>> h : )
>>> --
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>>> http://www.creative-catalyst.com (http://www.creative-catalyst.com)
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>>>
>>>
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>>> http://www.creative-catalyst.com (http://www.creative-catalyst.com)
>>> http://www.upstage.org.nz (http://www.upstage.org.nz)
>>>
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>>> 24 November 2016
>>>
>>>
>>>
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