Re: [Hampshire] linux for toshiba satellite pro 4320
2009/4/15 B STEVENS b.stevens...@btinternet.com: thanks again, gentlemen... your advice is appreciated :-) I'd recommend crunchbanglinux rather than xubuntu. It's ubuntu based, but uses a very lightweight openbox window manager. http://crunchbanglinux.org Very nice. I run it on an old Dell PIII650MHz with 256MB RAM. On booting to the desktop the memory footprint is under 100MB, nearer 60. Cheers, Al. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] linux for toshiba satellite pro 4320
Think ubuntu will struggle with only 256mb of memory, might be better with xbuntu which is ubuntu but with the xfce desktop as opposed to gnome Tim Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- I run Ubuntu (Gnome) on a 700 MHz ThinkPad with 320 Mb and, apart from seeming a bit slow, it runs perfectly. Incidentally, I also run Damn Small on a 133 MHz Thinkpad with 48 Mb Chris -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] linux for toshiba satellite pro 4320
2009/4/15 B STEVENS b.stevens...@btinternet.com: hi all can anyone recommend a modern linux distrubution to install on the above mentioned laptop? i've tried slax, redhat and knoppix to no avail and ended up using mandriva 8.1, which installs but won't recognise my network cards. regards bryan If you can get as far as booting any Linux on the machine, and then run at the command line: lspci One could then find out which driver you need for the network card. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Recommendation on Virtualisation books
Rik wrote: On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 21:21 +0100, Brian Chivers wrote: I'm starting to look at virtualisation but I know very little about it. Take a look at Sun's VirtualBox. I cannot sing it's praises enough. I like the VB website and particularly the use of MIT licence for their code contribution policy - I've just finished writing a contribution policy to cope with a collaboration and this site was useful. As for Virtualization I'm a qemu, kqemu and kvm user. As with most things on the Open Source cutting edge, once you have a working recipe tailored to your requirements qemu and variants is very stable and performs well, in this case mainly as a non critical server and development environment host. I'm currently experimenting with the latest GUI virt-manager with kqemu, it's not working properly just yet but I think I'm close. Damian -- http://www.diaser.org.uk - DIASER - distributed internet archive system for educational repositories -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Email query
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:43:25 +0100, hlug090...@buzzhost.co.uk said: Spam Intent specialist. [OT] What's an intent specialist? Is that a typo, or do you really specialise in intent in some way?! -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Email query
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 18:19 +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:43:25 +0100, hlug090...@buzzhost.co.uk said: Spam Intent specialist. [OT] What's an intent specialist? Is that a typo, or do you really specialise in intent in some way?! I do. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the term? All 'marketing' mail, UCE spam is sent with a reason. This is its 'intent'. Some are phishing, some are meds and pill, some are replica watches. The intent is to get you to visit url. I specialise in these URL's, and those that host, register, route and promote them. Hopefully this 'typo' has now been explained - but if you need any more help please don't hesitate to get in touch Keith. Regards Richard. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Email query
Thank you both. That clarifies things. Leo -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] linux for toshiba satellite pro 4320
result 1: i think we can discount ubuntu 9.04 for the aged toshiba. it took 10 minutes to get to the live desktop, applications took an age to initialise and react to mouse clicks / keystrokes. just about usuable and painfully slow. i'll let you all know the results of the other flavours of linux suggested. regards bryan -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] linux for toshiba satellite pro 4320
On Thursday 16 April 2009 22:54:41 B STEVENS wrote: result 1: i think we can discount ubuntu 9.04 for the aged toshiba. it took 10 minutes to get to the live desktop, applications took an age to initialise and react to mouse clicks / keystrokes. just about usuable and painfully slow. The slowness was probably precisely because it was running Live, on what is barely an adequate amount of RAM. It might work well once installed, and could probably be installed from the alternate CD instead of the live one. Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
