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RE: Which Linux?
April 13, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Kyu,
Boot into the live CD. There should be an "Install" program on the desktop. That, or the Live CD gives you a choice whether to boot into the live cd environment or install straight to HD.
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RE: Which Linux?
April 13, 2009 at 2:32 pm
It's OK ... I downloaded an older Linux distro (Morphix) I used to be fond of.
It was a bit slow (speed of PC) but installed just as the guy arrived.
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RE: Which Linux?
April 15, 2009 at 6:46 am
OK,
Slight diversion.
I have my mum's old PC and I want to figure out what it's CPU is ... unfortunately the BIOS doesn't tell me and I appear to be incapable of removing the fan assembly from the motherboard (it's one of those whacky Tiny PC's). I can reattach the original disk but, unfortunately, I've destroyed the original XP build and it now has Linux (SuSE) on it so my question to you Linux guys is, is there an easy way to tell what the CPU speed is (I think it's a P4 1.7 but not sure).
I need to know so I can sell the motherboard, CPU, memory, disk bundle on eBay.
EDIT: OK, I've confirmed inasmuch as I now know it's a skt 478/1.7, don't know the specific CPU number though.
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RE: Which Linux?
April 15, 2009 at 7:36 am
From a terminal you can run:
dmidecode - for bios and firmware information
cat /proc/cpuinfo - for CPU info
cat /proc/meminfo - for memory info
This is pretty much universal, you may need to run dmidecode as root (or Sudo it).
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RE: Which Linux?
June 3, 2009 at 5:27 am
Linux is a kernel with GNU toolchains and binaries. Xorg comes from another source.
Qt from trolltech, GNOME from GNU.
So you have a kernel, some tools, and a ui.
Not a single system.
Most- if not all- Linux distributions are based upon package managers.
Want a single system? FreeBSD.
Want a single system with a custom built ui "builtin"? Try NetBSD or OpenBSD.
Live CDs are good for recovery.
If you really want a "true" Linux distribution on your box, then you would follow these rules of thumb:
Install base system and latest stable kernel for your CPU type.
Build X modularly and remove the drivers that you don't need.
Install only the applications that you need and a few that you want. Use those that have the least meory requirements.
Set swap to this rule: Less than 128M RAM- 256M.
128 to 256M- 2x physical
512M to 1024M RAM- physical ram size.
1024M and more:512 will do unless you are doing rendering then I say to use ram size as the rule.
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RE: Which Linux?
June 3, 2009 at 8:32 am
Every machine i run runs Linux. My playstation and netbook are set up almost as described above. However, these two systems are no more linux machines than the fedora desktop I'm replying to you on, or the debian install on my laptop. You seem to be making a no true Scotsmen fallacy with linux distros. By what logic is a distro that you have optimised for your platform any more "true" than a general system which is slightly slower but has the exact same packages installed as the first?
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RE: Which Linux?
June 4, 2009 at 7:39 am
*Ding*
What's that?
Oh! It's an automatic update for Linux that I get on a daily basis rather than every month. I think after it's installed (no need for reboot!!!) I'll play on some games that I bought for Linux.
