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Good Linux alternative for Windows 9x/ME era computers.
This is a version of linux called u-lite. It is based on ubuntu, so it is
completely updatable, and uses the latest programs and browsers easily. It can use the latest youtube and other flash video sites, for instance, because it uses a recent version of adobe flashplayer with a modern gecko based browser, like firefox and kazehakase. Win9x won't do this without some major hacking. It uses the lxde desktop so it runs on very low resource computers. You just need about 32mb of ram, and anything over 486dx with some swap space. That's all. I dual booted Windows 98 with various linux for a long time, but I stuck with mainly Win98 for as long as possible, because many of the linuxes I used just operated too sluggishly. Unfortunately Win98 got hosed at some point. I couldn't reinstall it from my oem compaq restore disk because I had upgraded the hard drive and it would only install on the original owing to some copywrite protection code. I had to resort to linux. This caused me to hunt for lighter versions of linux. U-lite thus far is the best one I have used. Now some info about linux in general. Like alot of people who resort to old versons of windows, I don't have alot of money, and linux gives me access to thousands of good free opensource programs at the end of my fingertips through synaptic. There are equivalents to most of the programs I used on Win98, and when it isn't available I can generally run my old windows 98 programs through a program called wine. I use wine mostly for my old games. http://u-lite.org I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences recently with a version Linux? |
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Good Linux alternative for Windows 9x/ME era computers.
No Alternative wrote:
Now some info about linux in general. Like alot of people who resort to old versons of windows, I don't have alot of money, and linux gives me access to thousands of good free opensource programs at the end of my fingertips through synaptic. There are equivalents to most of the programs I used on Win98, and when it isn't available I can generally run my old windows 98 programs through a program called wine. I use wine mostly for my old games. http://u-lite.org I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences recently with a version Linux? Thanks, I have an old machine that's running an Intel 350 with 256MB of RAM. I'll try U-Lite on it. Alias |
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On Mon, 04 May 2009 15:07:58 GMT, No Alternative wrote:
I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences recently with a version Linux? Yes, many, but none of which are on-topic for this group, as dead as it is. I use Slackware, which works just fine. I use an older version for an older computer. I could probably use the current version on the older version, but I have my reasons. -- It smells like wet fruity sheep. |
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On Mon, 4 May 2009 15:07:58 +0000 (UTC), No Alternative
wrote: I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences recently with a version Linux? No thanks - I'd like to be able to read/write the same file format as everyone else I know - without the hassle of working out what the hell they're using to read it with. -- Noel Paton www.crashfixpc.co.uk Nil Carborundum Illegitemi |
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On Mon, 04 May 2009 22:33:55 +0100, Noel Paton wrote:
On Mon, 4 May 2009 15:07:58 +0000 (UTC), No Alternative wrote: I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences recently with a version Linux? No thanks - I'd like to be able to read/write the same file format as everyone else I know - without the hassle of working out what the hell they're using to read it with. file formats aren't generally a problem. Linux word processors like openoffice and abiword, read and write doc, txt, and rtf files. Linux graphics programs like the gimp, or mtpaint, read and write gif, jpg, and png images. Linux compression utilities will zip and unzip zip formats. There are several programs for viewing and reading pdf , and most media players will handle mp3, reaplpayer, and quicktime files. |
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No Alternative wrote:
On Mon, 04 May 2009 22:33:55 +0100, Noel Paton wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009 15:07:58 +0000 (UTC), No Alternative wrote: I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences recently with a version Linux? No thanks - I'd like to be able to read/write the same file format as everyone else I know - without the hassle of working out what the hell they're using to read it with. file formats aren't generally a problem. Linux word processors like openoffice and abiword, read and write doc, txt, and rtf files. Linux graphics programs like the gimp, or mtpaint, read and write gif, jpg, and png images. Linux compression utilities will zip and unzip zip formats. There are several programs for viewing and reading pdf , and most media players will handle mp3, reaplpayer, and quicktime files. Open Office also reads docx files. Linux can also handle RAR out of the box. The old days of Linux not being able to read MS files or interpret NTFS have been over for a long time. If you dual boot with Windows, Linux will be able see Windows and read or write to its partition. Windows, OTOH, cannot see the Linux partitions, which is just as well. Alias |
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You forgot to add an 's' to 'Alternative' in order to be able to extract
'Alias' from it. Now the 'Invaders' are here and everybody take cover! "No Alternative" wrote in message ... This is a version of linux called u-lite. It is based on ubuntu, so it is completely updatable, and uses the latest programs and browsers easily. It can use the latest youtube and other flash video sites, for instance, because it uses a recent version of adobe flashplayer with a modern gecko based browser, like firefox and kazehakase. Win9x won't do this without some major hacking. It uses the lxde desktop so it runs on very low resource computers. You just need about 32mb of ram, and anything over 486dx with some swap space. That's all. I dual booted Windows 98 with various linux for a long time, but I stuck with mainly Win98 for as long as possible, because many of the linuxes I used just operated too sluggishly. Unfortunately Win98 got hosed at some point. I couldn't reinstall it from my oem compaq restore disk because I had upgraded the hard drive and it would only install on the original owing to some copywrite protection code. I had to resort to linux. This caused me to hunt for lighter versions of linux. U-lite thus far is the best one I have used. Now some info about linux in general. Like alot of people who resort to old versons of windows, I don't have alot of money, and linux gives me access to thousands of good free opensource programs at the end of my fingertips through synaptic. There are equivalents to most of the programs I used on Win98, and when it isn't available I can generally run my old windows 98 programs through a program called wine. I use wine mostly for my old games. http://u-lite.org I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences recently with a version Linux? |
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microsoft.public.windowsme.general Good Linux alternative for Windows 9x/ME era computers. 1 No Alternative May 4 2 Alias May 4 3 Auric__ May 4 4 Noel Paton May 4 5 No Alternative May 4 6 Alias May 5 7 webster72n May 5 This is a version of linux called u-lite. It is based on ubuntu, so it is completely updatable, and uses the latest programs and browsers easily. It can use the latest youtube and other flash video sites, for instance, because it uses a recent version of adobe flashplayer with a modern gecko based browser, like firefox and kazehakase. Win9x won't do this without some major hacking. It uses the lxde desktop so it runs on very low resource computers. You just need about 32mb of ram, and anything over 486dx with some swap space. That's all. I dual booted Windows 98 with various linux for a long time, but I stuck with mainly Win98 for as long as possible, because many of the linuxes I used just operated too sluggishly. Unfortunately Win98 got hosed at some point. I couldn't reinstall it from my oem compaq restore disk because I had upgraded the hard drive and it would only install on the original owing to some copywrite protection code. I had to resort to linux. This caused me to hunt for lighter versions of linux. U-lite thus far is the best one I have used. Now some info about linux in general. Like alot of people who resort to old versons of windows, I don't have alot of money, and linux gives me access to thousands of good free opensource programs at the end of my fingertips through synaptic. There are equivalents to most of the programs I used on Win98, and when it isn't available I can generally run my old windows 98 programs through a program called wine. I use wine mostly for my old games. http://u-lite.org I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences recently with a version Linux? Is there an active Linux usenet newsgroup? I tried a few different Linux distros on various of my older machines that run between 1 and 2 GHz. The HARDWARE DETECT auto install stuff in most Linux distros really impressed me. Built in sound chips was the part I had trouble with the most. I was dismayed to learn that even OLD sound chips were not well supported because they are considered OBSOLETE. Disabling ESS or other on board sound chip and adding in a genuine CREATIVE sound card seems to be a helpful move. Linux distros seem to favor Intel processors and larger RAM than MS Windows. I appreciated the u-lite info. Certainly it is worthwhile to enable older systems (Faster than 1 GHz) to continue to function as media boxes for playing DVD's CD's or YouTube .FLV videos online or off line. It just seems smart to recycle the computers that aren't TOO slow! Call it "GREEN" if that helps! Are there active Linux usenet newsgroups? Or sites to help with Linux installs? |
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On Sat, 09 May 2009 14:32:06 -0700, Greegor wrote:
I am sorry I didn't see the stuff at the end of the post. Hope you're still around. Is there an active Linux usenet newsgroup? Yes. The best one for u-lite would be alt.os.linux.ubuntu . There are three good general ones I use called alt.linux , alt.os.linux , comp.os.linux.misc. There are like hundreds of olthers. The best place to search is google groups because it gives you some idea of how much traffic the group gets. I tried a few different Linux distros on various of my older machines that run between 1 and 2 GHz. The HARDWARE DETECT auto install stuff in most Linux distros really impressed me. Built in sound chips was the part I had trouble with the most. I was dismayed to learn that even OLD sound chips were not well supported because they are considered OBSOLETE. Yes, around 2002ish linux still had a problem with many old soundcards, but this has largely been overcome. Now the problem is newish soundcards and graphics cards. Disabling ESS or other on board sound chip and adding in a genuine CREATIVE sound card seems to be a helpful move. I have an ess, on my present compaq 5184 k6-2 350mhz. There is no problem. Linux distros seem to favor Intel processors and larger RAM than MS Windows. u-lite is not as ram intensive as the others. All flavors of linux are less processor and harddrive intensive than windows. Ram is a cheap upgrade. I appreciated the u-lite info. Certainly it is worthwhile to enable older systems (Faster than 1 GHz) to continue to function as media boxes for playing DVD's CD's or YouTube .FLV videos online or off line. u-lite operates on computers much less powerful than 1ghz. Mine is only 350mhz. I operate it on another that is on pentium mmx 266 mhz, and it is a speed demon. It just seems smart to recycle the computers that aren't TOO slow! Call it "GREEN" if that helps! Are there active Linux usenet newsgroups? Or sites to help with Linux installs? There are many usenet groups which I have listed and there are also many websites. u-lite has an active forum, and there are others that can help, like justlinux.org , linuxquestions.org, and ubuntuforums.org . -- http://english-158465906205.spampoison.com http://u-lite.org |
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On Mon, 4 May 2009 15:07:58 +0000 (UTC), No Alternative
wrote: I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences recently with a version Linux? I use different operating systems. Some of my boxes still run wfw3.11 and they have network and internet connection. But in the meantime I spend most of my time with different Linux versions. All these machines have network and internet connection, and so every Linux box can communicate with every wfw3.11 box. This is really funny for web development, for example, where I write the perl and html code and run it on one of the Linux machines, connected from one of the wfw3.11 boxes :-) The most preferred Linux version here are Mandrake 10.1 and Mandriva 2009.0. I already tried other distros like FreeBSD, Debian, SuSE, Caldera, Redhat and enven on one of my machines there's still Ubuntu, but I don't like it much. I tmakes heavy use of "sudo" which, in my opinion, is far from professional working. One of Mandrake's / Mandriva's big advantages is the very convenient partitioning and the professional way of configuring. - It simply works :-) Best regards, Markus -- Please reply to group only. For private email please use http://www.dipl-ing-kessler.de/email.htm |
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