Re: [SLUG] Android for work
I will give pclinux a go next time, I think. Well, by lack of answers it would seem Android may just be a toy. Given nobody is putting their hand up to say 'yeah, its a good work tool'. Will run a phone though.. No debate about that. On 12/15/11, Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: On 15/12/11 13:02, David Lyon wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM, James Linderj...@tigger.ws wrote: When an elderly and distinguished scientist say something is not possible he is nearly always wrongsmile I know I could buy more memory or get multicores.. involves money and time.. The memory footprint of ubuntu 11 is obviously too much for the hardware I have and I'm not claiming anything else. I found Puppy to be kewl, but a bit off the beaten track. I used it for small embedded stuff, and much as I'm not a fan of the whole ubuntu paradgsm it does work and there is lots of expertise if you need it. Still if puppy works for you then use it :-) Embedded is what I'm working on.. so the speed advantage is what I need. PCLinuxOS is fast, uses a light X11 interface and works well in older hardware and just about set up my wifi for me. I have the 64bit version and it flies. Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Android for work
On 16/12/2011, at 9:00 AM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: When an elderly and distinguished scientist say something is not possible he is nearly always wrong smile I know I could buy more memory or get multicores.. involves money and time.. The memory footprint of ubuntu 11 is obviously too much for the hardware I have and I'm not claiming anything else. I found Puppy to be kewl, but a bit off the beaten track. I used it for small embedded stuff, and much as I'm not a fan of the whole ubuntu paradgsm it does work and there is lots of expertise if you need it. Still if puppy works for you then use it :-) Embedded is what I'm working on.. so the speed advantage is what I need. Just to harp on for a moment U11 does not have any significant memory issues, gnome and the GUI do. Ditch those and you are good to go. U makes it easy to do and to manage. And to harp yet more ... embedded and speed have nothing to do with each other, you can have any combination that you choose. Both U and Knoppix running from ramdisk are really slick n quick If you are playing with ARM, I am finding the gumstix overo to be rather neat. http://gumstix.com James-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Android for work
I have been using Ubuntu 10.10 for work - just fine. At home I tried Ubuntu 11 and one my one or two year old hardware it just has unacceptable performance ie 10 - 20 seconds to respond to menu clicks etc. So, there is Android 3.2 from: http://www.android-x86.org/ Any good for tech work? ie light development, modding websites, ftp, python, databases etc. I notice it has dosbox, geany and most of the other tools are ported. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Android for work
On 15/12/11 09:54, David Lyon wrote: I have been using Ubuntu 10.10 for work - just fine. At home I tried Ubuntu 11 and one my one or two year old hardware it just has unacceptable performance ie 10 - 20 seconds to respond to menu clicks etc. Curious... My two year old hardware is just fine on 11.04 I just installed 11.04 on a R50 thinkpad for a friend and it was perfectly acceptable. So, there is Android 3.2 from: http://www.android-x86.org/ Any good for tech work? ie light development, modding websites, ftp, python, databases etc. I notice it has dosbox, geany and most of the other tools are ported. -- David McQuire 0418 310312 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Android for work
maybe 2 years is really 5 or 6.. Actually, I just jumped over to learn Puppy Linux. Pretty hardcore but everything is quite good. Ubuntu has nice graphical effects but I have work to do and willing to lose them in an effort to get some stuff done.. still curious about Android.. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Android for work
Did you try XFCE or something a little more light weight on the GUI front? Or even disable all the default fancy stuff. I am still running 10 and gnome 2.3 and don't have any issues on a laptop at least 4 years old, looking to upgrade this weekend to 11.something and XFCE. On 15 December 2011 10:18, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.comwrote: maybe 2 years is really 5 or 6.. Actually, I just jumped over to learn Puppy Linux. Pretty hardcore but everything is quite good. Ubuntu has nice graphical effects but I have work to do and willing to lose them in an effort to get some stuff done.. still curious about Android.. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Android for work
On 15/12/2011, at 9:00 AM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: I have been using Ubuntu 10.10 for work - just fine. At home I tried Ubuntu 11 and one my one or two year old hardware it just has unacceptable performance ie 10 - 20 seconds to respond to menu clicks etc. So, there is Android 3.2 from: http://www.android-x86.org/ Any good for tech work? ie light development, modding websites, ftp, python, databases etc. I notice it has dosbox, geany and most of the other tools are ported. I'll bet your issue is 3D graphics I have and do do and do like fvwm. If that is a bit daunting (use the editor luke) try mint 12 Not able to offer any comment on android. James-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Android for work
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: When an elderly and distinguished scientist say something is not possible he is nearly always wrong smile I know I could buy more memory or get multicores.. involves money and time.. The memory footprint of ubuntu 11 is obviously too much for the hardware I have and I'm not claiming anything else. I found Puppy to be kewl, but a bit off the beaten track. I used it for small embedded stuff, and much as I'm not a fan of the whole ubuntu paradgsm it does work and there is lots of expertise if you need it. Still if puppy works for you then use it :-) Embedded is what I'm working on.. so the speed advantage is what I need. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Android for work
On 15/12/11 13:02, David Lyon wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM, James Linderj...@tigger.ws wrote: When an elderly and distinguished scientist say something is not possible he is nearly always wrongsmile I know I could buy more memory or get multicores.. involves money and time.. The memory footprint of ubuntu 11 is obviously too much for the hardware I have and I'm not claiming anything else. I found Puppy to be kewl, but a bit off the beaten track. I used it for small embedded stuff, and much as I'm not a fan of the whole ubuntu paradgsm it does work and there is lots of expertise if you need it. Still if puppy works for you then use it :-) Embedded is what I'm working on.. so the speed advantage is what I need. PCLinuxOS is fast, uses a light X11 interface and works well in older hardware and just about set up my wifi for me. I have the 64bit version and it flies. Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
