Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-18 Thread Piyush P Kurur
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:39:28AM -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On 09/18/2009 11:17 AM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: >> * forget about XDM/GDM/KDM and use startx, or a direct autologin from >> /etc/inittab! > > Or use qingy. > > DR or xmonad ppk

Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-18 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 18 September 2009 07:49:07 am Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Daenyth Blank wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 17:04, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > >> The other is that I had trouble finding a truly lightweight X terminal > >> (there were times when xterm was considered

Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 09/18/2009 11:17 AM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: * forget about XDM/GDM/KDM and use startx, or a direct autologin from /etc/inittab! Or use qingy. DR

Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-18 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: 2009/9/18 Dimitrios Apostolou On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: I'm using Arch on a old Sony Vaio: pentium II 200MHz with ~64MB of ram. It Cool, especially since you have desktop software on it... How did you manage to install

Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-18 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
2009/9/18 Dimitrios Apostolou > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: > > I'm using Arch on a old Sony Vaio: pentium II 200MHz with ~64MB of ram. It >> > > Cool, especially since you have desktop software on it... How did you > manage to install with only 64MB RAM? Note that I'm not s

Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-18 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Daenyth Blank wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 17:04, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: The other is that I had trouble finding a truly lightweight X terminal (there were times when xterm was considered bloated ;) so I packaged myself rxvt. Most other distributions offer it so in c

Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-18 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: I'm using Arch on a old Sony Vaio: pentium II 200MHz with ~64MB of ram. It Cool, especially since you have desktop software on it... How did you manage to install with only 64MB RAM? is running LXDE. It is slow to boot, but I suspend without p

Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-17 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I'm using Arch on a old Sony Vaio: pentium II 200MHz with ~64MB of ram. It is running LXDE. It is slow to boot, but I suspend without problems (its up since a couple of month with suspend+resume each morning). It is running slow, but this machine is now my alarm clock, and it works perfectly stream

Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 17:04, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: >> The other is that I had trouble finding a truly lightweight X terminal >> (there were times when xterm was considered bloated ;) so I packaged myself >> rxvt. Most other distributi

Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-17 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 17:04, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > The other is that I had trouble finding a truly lightweight X terminal > (there were times when xterm was considered bloated ;) so I packaged myself > rxvt. Most other distributions offer it so in case you decide to include it > I attach