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It is very very old, I can't check it right now because the installation proccess is still going on. From what I've recall it is an AMD Duron, Sis or Via graphic card, 384 MB. The problem is: what now? What do I do with this?
Well, my first advice would be forget kde and gnome.
I was recently playing around with a laptop w/384M of ram and 1.2 Gh cpu and it was definitely usable so you're not wasting your time. I always use fluxbox btw.
I've installed it with XFCE, got no luck trying to start X. This is what I've got http://pastebin.com/zWVpmEQE
And thanks for the suggestions but none of them seem to be very useful :/ I was thinking about trying something like Arch or ArchBang.
because we don't know what YOU need to do. I sent you a link with a few dozen project ideas, or you can do typical things that everyone does with a computer, like: surf the web, create documents, look at photos, listen to music, play games, etc.
Or am I completely misunderstanding your questions?
I was just seeing if I could revive this ancient machine. The plan was to use it just to surf the web but I think it will be a horrible experience. To be honest, it is just curiosity, I don't think this machine can be used for something really useful (because I have other computers).
I was just seeing if I could revive this ancient machine. The plan was to use it just to surf the web but I think it will be a horrible experience. To be honest, it is just curiosity, I don't think this machine can be used for something really useful (because I have other computers).
If you've done a full install of Slackware then give Fluxbox a try and see what happens. At the log-in prompt after you've logged in as yourself issue this command:
I can't start X and I am sort of a Linux noob still so I have no idea what to do.
After you logged in as a regular user did you try to switch over to Fluxbox using the commands I gave you? Did you do a full install of Slackware 14.1?
It is very very old, I can't check it right now because the installation proccess is still going on. From what I've recall it is an AMD Duron, Sis or Via graphic card, 384 MB. The problem is: what now? What do I do with this?
Well, your next several months will be full of fun, trying to make the X.org working...
My bet is at an epic final, ... finally. Something like: "Finally, it WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORKS!"
In the mean time, you'll enjoy the googling in the text mode links...
PS. Hint: There is no video hardware acceleration for you, and, lot of fun, your X.org SiS video driver is technically unmaintained for years...
Last edited by Darth Vader; 12-29-2013 at 11:55 AM.
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