Old Laptop: Suggestions?
-
- Posts: 8062
- Joined: Thu May 20, 2004 7:32 pm
For crappy I'd go Linux. If you don't have any experience with Linux it's a good learning "oppertunity", and Linux was made for old hardware. At least it used to be. I hear the later releases are starting to become Windows with bloat.thibodeaux wrote:Assume crappy. What's the decision?
I tend to find it funny that all the Linux fanbois bitch about Windows and each distro becomes more and more what they hate.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
As more people get exposed to open source, open source may become more fucked up. Think about it. You've a free product that can theoretically be modified by anyone. The only thing that's keeping it from true shitdom is the fact that it requires some competency to modify it, hence there is some control mechanism over who can modify it.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
If you're going Linux, try out the Fedora 7 distro designed specifically for the OLPC. It's very trim and fast without all the bloat pre-installed, and it comes in a convenient little package that is easy to get started with. But it also processes YUM and RPM just like any other Fedora distro, so you can selectively add bloat if you want more bells and whistles.
I'm not sure of the packaged version will work on a non-OLPC machine without tweaking, but it might. At least it would be fun to try.
Edited By TPRJones on 1200041394
I'm not sure of the packaged version will work on a non-OLPC machine without tweaking, but it might. At least it would be fun to try.
Edited By TPRJones on 1200041394
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
-
- Posts: 1579
- Joined: Fri Oct 08, 2004 7:58 pm
I got fed up with the bloat and switched toa BSD. The only problem is software development isn't as far along as on Linux. But it's really stable.Vince wrote:For crappy I'd go Linux. If you don't have any experience with Linux it's a good learning "oppertunity", and Linux was made for old hardware. At least it used to be. I hear the later releases are starting to become Windows with bloat.
I tend to find it funny that all the Linux fanbois bitch about Windows and each distro becomes more and more what they hate.
Wadda mean? Other people can read this?!
For all the theoretical benefiets of open source, they've actually produced... um... thinking...Malcolm wrote:As more people get exposed to open source, open source may become more fucked up. Think about it. You've a free product that can theoretically be modified by anyone. The only thing that's keeping it from true shitdom is the fact that it requires some competency to modify it, hence there is some control mechanism over who can modify it.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren