[Tfug] OK, XFCE on an older rig has lost it's mind...

[Predrag Punosevac]

Jim,
Do not be angry at me for this comment but that computer would love  
OpenBSD (and this is comming from
the mouth of primarelly FreeBSD user)
Complete installation with X would be less then 600Mb + OpenBox  
+ XFce-panel and fah for wall paper +
application you need 1-2Gb. No FreeBSD ports just pkg_add utility to add  
pre-compiled OpenBSD binaries.
It would take me 2-3 hours to load the crap and it would fly like a bird.
Couple times I did that for my friend they thought they have a new  
computer.

Speaking of Ubuntu I installed just as a joke 7.10 on an older PIII 650Gz,  
312Mb ram and 10G hard.
It really did work out of box 100% and very efficient. I really liked  
Sinaptic installer. It is an ideal
grand-mother distro. I could not believe Opera is not a standard package.

Good Luck
Predrag




On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:14:33 -0700, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Ah.  OK, I unborked it.  CTRL-ALT-F2, got another text session with
> login, did vi to change color depth back.
>
> OK.  Now why in hell is XFCE got dead panels?
>
> Jim
>
> On Nov 13, 2007 1:05 AM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, well now I've borked it completely.  Like an idiot I tried
>> setting color depth to "8" instead of "24" in xorg.conf to try and
>> salvage video performance.  Oops.  Killed "X" deader'n'elvis.  And
>> "rescue mode" is screwed too.
>>
>> Siiiigh.
>>
>> Screw it.  I'll load xubuntu alternate 7.10, see if that's more
>> reliable than loading gnome ubuntu alternate and doing "sudo apt-get
>> install xfce*" to get XFCE.  The latter trick boogered stuff up
>> apparently.
>>
>> Grrrrrr.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Nov 13, 2007 12:40 AM, Brian Murphy <murphy at coppershadow.com> wrote:
>> > Jim March wrote:
>> > > I'm rebuilding an old IBM Thinkpad "iSeries" Celeron 600 critter.   
>> All
>> > > of 192megs RAM and that appears to be peak (sigh). Trident video  
>> with
>> > > wow, 4megs RAM!  (bleah)
>> >
>> > Sounds like a good candidate for fvwm95! :-)
>> >
>> > B
>> >
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