Re: Herd5 on older hardware

On 03/05/2007 02:03 PM, SteVe Cook wrote:
Duncan Lithgow wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 17:23 +0100, Denis Witt wrote:
The "graphics" you may read about are now a default setting in feisty
which may produce to many load on this machine, but it's no problem to
disable this (like i did).
Actually the 'Desktop Effects' created by Compiz are not turned on by
default in Feisty.

Duncan

Out of interest I've just loaded Feisty onto a 450MHz PII with 128MB. I
'borrowed' 256MB of ram out of another machine to install it from the
live CD and then removed it when it was done.
It runs OK, slow but OK. Ooo takes an age to load but it's usable.


Well I can report that Feisty Herd5 runs on a 300Mhz PII w/296MB and a
6Gb hard drive. Just spent the afternoon loading on my test machine. The
hardware is so old that I had to re-burn the Alternative CD to 8X speed
because the CD drives crapped out during the install software part at
6%. After I figured out the problem the install went just fine.

- Video came just fine & at the proper monitor resolutions - only
problem is that it only shows 60Hz, but that's easily fixable.

- Network said it wasn't available, so I just clicked the network icon
in the gnome panel & clicked wired network; as soon as I did it
recognized my nic and immediately informed me that I have software
updates available - 217 of the them! Haven't updated any of the 217 yet
because I want to explore a bit before I do.

- Firefox came up just fine.

- OpenOffice came up just fine.

- Evolution shouldn't even be installed yet. When you click on the
Evolution icon, you get a msg to the effect of:
====
Hi. Thanks for taking the time to download this preview release of the
Evolution groupware suite.

This version of Evolution is not yet complete. It is getting close, but ...
If you want a stable version of Evolution, we urge you to uninstall this
version, and instll version 2.8.1 instead.
....
Thanks
The Evolution Team
====

What the heck is that about?

As an added note: I could *not* get Edgy to work on this old test
machine. In fact I had to patch so much stuff that I just kept it at
Dapper. However, Feisty installs and seems to be working just fine at
first glance. I play with it awhile & then download the 217 updates to
see what happens after that.







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