[SATLUG] Video Drivers

[Geoff]

Donguitar wrote:
>> For the record II:
>> my *dual* PIII 550 CPU system (that I got from Jeremy Mann) with nearly
>> a gig (784Meg) of ram, wouldn't load Ubuntu.  The 2.2GHz machine w/1gig
>> of ram did -not- *completely* load Ubuntu.  If -you- got it to work on a
>> 450MHz, more power to you!
>>
>>     
>
> no, no, no, K/U/Xubuntu wouldn't run on the 450 MHz Celeron.  Debian Etch
> did, and nicely, with KDE no less.  Debian Etch has worked everywhere I've
> tried it.  *buntu has not, PCLinuxOS has not, Mandriva has not (add, Fedora
> Core, openSUSE, Bonzai, caos, DeLi, DesktopBSD, KateOS, pcbsd, SaxenOS,
> Freespire and gnewSense).  

Which solidifies my statement, that the Linux gui desktop is -not- ready 
for the masses (at this time).

I must say, though - most anyone could get around in Knoppix, Whoppix, 
Whax.  openSuSE/SuSE has worked for me, but even with alsa drivers 
coming native, there were still audio/media issues with SuSE. (were - 
all resolved now)

I -could- run either kde or gnome on the server but that seems sort of 
counter productive for a 733MHz machine, wtih 256meg of ram.

> About a year ago I got the then-current version of DSL to run on a pentium 90 that had a one gig hard drive & 64 MB of RAM.  It ran slow, but it ran and, just lately, I've been wondering if it wouldn't run as well or better with Etch.  

Are you talking about a gui'ed desktop, or 'ran' as in installed with a 
command line interface? 

I found out that Ubuntu would -not- install its gui'ed version with the 
128meg of ram that was on that system, prior.  It wanted -at least- 
256meg of ram, and even 784meg of ram (and more) don't seem to quench 
it's appetite for more resources.

> I've got a set of disks for Sarge but Etch is a couple of orders of magnitude more user friendly.

I've been getting my iso's from 
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

By sheer number of downloads, they disagree with your stat about which 
distro is more popular...

--
-Geoff (who didn't just -come around- here... been here in SATLUG since 
2001)