Tried Puppy - it needs 64M of Ram Disk to Install. Managed to get Gentoo running from Cd having booted from floppy but could not transfer to hard drive. Currently have got a very Low Resource-Demanding version of DSL but the desktop will only allow the display of images one at a Time. I located a programme from about 2004 which fits my display requirements and have tried unsuccessfully to compile. <br> I assumed (maybe wrongly) that if I can compile this package I have down-loaded onto my main machine, I can then transfer the resultant binary to the Laptop.<br> Only of academic interest at the moment as I am trying to do other things.<br>Rich<br><br>
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Date: 18/02/2009 23:17 <br>
To: <kent@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>
Subj: Re: [Klug-general] [Klug-General] More free stuff<br>
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George wrote<br><pre>A laptop with very little RAM and processor power is always a great <br>opportunity to install Gentoo :D</pre>Another possibility would be Puppy Linux<br><br>Aitch<br>------------------------------<br><br>> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:51:13 +0000<br>> From: george.prowse@gmail.com<br>> To: rich-ayres@tiscali.co.uk; kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] [Klug-General] More free stuff<br>> <br>> rich-ayres@tiscali.co.uk wrote:<br>> > Thanks Colin<br>> > I am having trouble compiling (still a bit of a black to <br>> > me,) a viewer that will run on "The Block" (What I call the Laptop <br>> > that Nathan so kindly gave me) 16M of RAM used to be plenty in the <br>> > days of W***s95 but most apps seem to want 64M minimum. Still I'm <br>> > having fun while I learn inspired by Mike R<br>> > Rich<br>> > <br>> A laptop with very little RAM and processor power is always a great <br>> opportunity to install Gentoo :D<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Kent mailing list<br>> Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent<br><br><hr>Try Facebook in Windows Live Messenger! <a href="http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354030/direct/01/" target="_new">Try it Now!</a>
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