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Linux - Distro-Junkies Unite!

#21
My PC hardware has now been upgraded, and my PCLinuxOS 2010 (Free) is set up and tweaked to my liking.

Now, for fun, I have an old P-II 350 with 96MB RAM that I am going to load either DSL or Puppy on. I have never used a tiny distro before, and never attempted to load it on something that old/slow.

If that works out, I may try one of them on a P166 with 48MB RAM.:D:hyper:
 
#25
Philbiker said:
I'm running Ubuntu 9 on an old PIII600 laptop (posting from it right now as a matter of fact). This laptop barely runs Ubuntu, but it works OK for light duty surfing. How is 10?
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Ubuntu 10.04.1 works well on a 2004-era S478 P4 @ 2.80 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9600 (128 MB GRAM).

But for a PIII a lighter distro like the seemingly popular [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] or perhaps even UbuntuStudioPE-2.1 would yield better performance.

Another option which is mentioned in nearly any roundup of GNU/Linux distros for use on old machines is Damn Small Linux.
 
#26
MadMan118 said:
Linux isn't really known for it's media/creative prowess. Yeah there's a few programs around, but nothing to match things like Pro Tools, Reason, etc. Though it will work in a pinch and I've never had any latency issues with Linux. I use Linux because it works, well every time. I use ubuntu, fedora, and crunchbang a ubuntu based distro. Its like a stripped down version of ubuntu, so its easy to use and there's less things than go wrong.
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I think you need to amend this. Linux is VERY WELL KNOWN for it's creative/media creation prowess... in the 3D rendering world.

There are hundreds of studios with linux renderfarms just churning out images all day and night.

I use Ubuntu Studio around the house and Ubuntu Server at work.

I don't do much "distro drifting". I find something I like and then go with it.

Back in the day, I'd be using FreeBSD a lot or QNX, IRIX or BeOS (not *nix, I know).
 
#27
I've been a proud Linux user since 1996 or so. Im currently a Linux Sysadmin at a large company for my day job. I have been using primarily Arch Linux at home, a modified Ubuntu for work and have several other distros running on various other machines. This was typed on an Android phone.

I don't have a lot of experience making music in Linux, but from what I've seen, Ardour is very comparable to protools, minus the pricetag of course. I will put together a machine for recording one of these days.
 
#28
As much as I've become quite the "windows" guy with 7 (love the design....) on my newly built media center-ish box, I still like ubuntu, and have it dual boot wubi style. that way I can back it up with my win 7 stuff and defrag if need be. I get all kinds of nice free programs that actually do what they should, but still use 7 for games and media playback.

My new netbook never even booted into the OEM of 7. Ubuntu NBE all the way for a killer, CHEAP drum machine, tab viewer, internet browser :D
 
#30
Lucid Puppy FTW

It claims to be a compact an efficient distro for older hardware. I'm using it on an old Dell notebook that really slows down under Win7.

Unfortunately I have to keep a Windows partition for some of the creative software that I use, but not for everyday.
 
#31
MadMan118 said:
Linux isn't really known for it's media/creative prowess. Yeah there's a few programs around, but nothing to match things like Pro Tools, Reason, etc. Though it will work in a pinch and I've never had any latency issues with Linux. I use Linux because it works, well every time. I use ubuntu, fedora, and crunchbang a ubuntu based distro. Its like a stripped down version of ubuntu, so its easy to use and there's less things than go wrong.
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Actually...
 
#34
jp58 said:
har har har... Take that Bill Gates.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

Take THAT, OS bigot =)
 
#35
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"Linux has increased in both popularity and usage over the years in an almost exponential curve. So much so that Bill Gates has called Linux a virus and Steve Ballmer describes it as a cancer. It must have really galled them when they realised that they cannot live without Linux. Not just these power heads of microsoft either. Every single windows user cannot live without Linux.

This is because Linux is such a powerful and flexible operating system that it can be and has been, shoehorned into just about everything. Not just computing systems either. I find it extremely funny that those who most despise and ridicule Linux depend on it for their personal and working life.

Whenever you go on the Internet you are using Linux. You cannot avoid it. Google uses Linux, many web sites and servers use Linux. No matter which page you visit, even microsofts own web site, at some stage your data will traverse a Linux server. Doesn't that stick in a windows lovers gullet :) ..."

:p​
 
#39
NINFAN said:
One word for that, and it rhymes with duck.....

Like the article says tho, hopefully the open source people will keep it going under a different name or whatnot (I even use open office on my win 7 desktop!)
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Hopefully the OS community will help to keep that one going. Its going to be hard to get new "converts" without having a MS works equivalent.
 
#40
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"Linux is now more than a decade old. Throughout its history there have been many government entities that have decided that Linux was the ideal operating system to handle their mission-critical computing needs. This list gets larger every day. Here are a list of some of the more notable migrations to the Linux platform in the public sector..."
 

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