UBuntu on older machines ?

[s.roman]

so, is there a big advantage in using fluxbox over xfce4?


On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:18:06 +0100, Charley Ramm <charleyramm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I run a pII, 266mhz with debian on it. Currently it is my main machine
> until my laptop gets fixed. It runs fluxbox and dillo perfectly smoothly
> and it also runs an apache server with perl / python cgi so i can play
> with that stuff. It is a great little box. *Aside from that, its fitted
> in to an old cardboard box. Old school, huh? But i love it.
>  My onboard sound is also broken, but with fluxbox and dillo i have a
> perfectly smooth and useable operating system. Firefox is sluggish, but
> works ok for those pages that need it. (I hate CSS with a passion now).
>  Im sure i heard that ubuntu can install xfce as an alternative to
> gnome. Have you tried this yet? Or any of the other 'light' window
> managers.
> I got a shock last night when i tried The Gimp on this little machine.
> It ran FINE! It was absolutely brilliant. I am never buying a new
> computer, ever again. (crosses his fingers)
> 
> Charley
> 
> 
> 
> Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> 
> >>>Now that I have just learned that Ubuntu can run on my old Pentium
> >>>200MMX board with 256MB of RAM, I can't wait to try.
> >>>
> >>>Vince
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
> >>Don't hesitate, just try it - my organisation has 3 pre-233MHz machines
> >>with linux installed. Just try it then post again.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >Okay here is the result with Intel 200MMX board.
> >
> >First, my board was more clever that I thought, the BIOS did manage to
> >boot from the CD ! :-)
> >
> >I put 256MB of RAM on the board, and re-used the original hard drive,
> >ATA33  3.2GB disk, as I wasn't sure if my bigger disks would work, I
> >seem to remember there was a size limitation problem with disks around
> >that time, but I couldn't remember exactly what was the problem. So I
> >played it safe and just re-used the original drive.
> >
> >The install took well wellll over an hour, probably because of the disk
> >that's kinda slow, as Jeff pointed out.
> >
> >Despite copying all the packages, Ubuntu used only 1.5GB of space,
> >therefore leaving me with another 1.5GB to play with.
> >
> >Apart from the on-board sound which didn't work, and Gnome forcing me to
> >use a 800*600 screen resolution instead of the 1024*768 I used to use on
> >this machine, everything worked perfectly. Laser printer, external ZIP
> >drive, Ethernet controller and cable modem/internet, everything was
> >working fine out of the box.
> >
> >However it was a bit too slow to be useable, calling a Nautilus window
> >(say the 'disk' location or 'home' or whatever) took 5 seconds, so it's
> >not really suitable for daily use.
> >
> >I am sure if the CPU was only a bit faster, it would work well. But
> >sadly, 200MHz is already the fastest Pentium one you can get, ISTR.
> >233MHz maybe. I am sure a dual 200MMX board would be plenty powerfull
> >enough
> >
> >However I have recently been toying with the idea of having a second
> >Linux box to build a local Ethernet network, both to serve some specific
> >needs I have, but also generally to play with things, experiment with
> >Network related things, and learn more about Linux.
> >
> >Typically that's what I would like to achieve/experiment with this
> >future machine:
> >
> >1) Put several IDE disks and binds them using S/W RAID
> >2) Set up an NFS network with the main/other machine
> >3) Use it to regularly back-up my 10GB or so of precious data from the
> >main PC
> >4) Attach laser printer locally and let the main PC access it from the
> >network
> >5) fiddle with remote administration, remote control of the PC using
> >Gnome's 2.8 new tools.
> >6) local mail
> >7) Intranet / local web server
> >8) Other things that will eventually spring to mind as I go ! ;-)
> >
> >But I need first to buy a decent tower case, screen and keyboard and
> >mouse hardrive power supply etc, and money is very tight right now.
> >But eventually this will come to life sometime next year, at which point
> >I will no doubt bombard this list for help. Be prepared folks... ;o)
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Vince
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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