which distro

Lenny gervin at cableone.net
Fri Sep 26 21:31:55 UTC 2014


Both told me, as I mentioned, that it's kernel won't work on that processor.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Krishnakant Mane" <krmane at gmail.com>
To: "Lenny" <gErvin at cableone.net>; "Ubuntu List" 
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Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: which distro



Ubuntu 14.04 or Sonar.
Happy hacking.
On Friday 26 September 2014 11:52 PM, Lenny wrote:
> Hi,
> I am looking for a version of Linux to run on my Asus 701.
> It has a Celeron Mobile 900 MHZ processor and 1GB of RAM.
> Ubuntu XP-Like version 10.04 runs good on it, but every time I try to
> install Voxin for Orca, it seems to install, but I get the message that
> speech-dispatcher is not included in this version, which comes after the
> Voxin install.
> I hear the IBM voice speaking during the install, and I log out and back 
> in,
> and no Voxin.
> So I'm looking for another distro for this notebook.
> It has a 4GB HD, so something like Lubuntu would be good.
> I tried booting to that, but either Orca would not boot as usual, or it 
> has
> the latest kernel which does not like this processor.
> I also cannot boot into Sonar or F123.
> I want a GUI.
> I was wondering about Arch, and then installing a GUI but I'm not sure how
> involved that is.
> I'm looking for suggestions here.
> Thanks.
>
> Glenn
>
>




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