[frgeek-michiana] Re: Freebox distros
- From: "Mike Cook" <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 20:28:15 -0400
I installed Morphix - games to the HD on a FB II spec machine at the lab
Tues. It ran well, although some of the games defiantly ran slow. The
window manager (xfce) ran well and the system was generally responsive.
Lots of games but a little light in the not so fun applications department.
Morphix seems worth looking at.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick L. Tribble" <rtribble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:58 AM
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Freebox distros
> I've installed Morphix on 2 400mhz machines. It definitely likes to have
96mb or 128mb. It will run on 64 though, but kinda slow.
> I haven't gotten the sound to work yet. But I still need to try it with
an ISA Creative card or a PCI card.
>
> It comes with a filemanager, Abiword, Gaim, Gimp, Firefox, and Thunderbird
standard.
>
> You can also create custom live/install cd's using their tools.
>
> I installed several games and wine using the synaptic installer.
>
> The install process gives you the option to use a graphic partitioner or a
command line.
>
> So far it has found all the nics that I have used. I haven't tried any
modems yet.
>
> More to follow.
>
> Rick
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Zimmerman [mailto:richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 9:55 AM
> To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Freebox distros
>
> Since I'm a Debian guru I can take a look at these. I'm getting a lot of
> questions about MEPIS from a local PC users group. I will need a FGM
> Spec II machine though... My daughters is only a spec I box and the
> other FGM box I have is a 1g machine, not realistic for testing these.
>
> Is there a class tomorrow on the 7th? I'd like to sit in and look at the
> new class stuff they are doing so I know how to config the LTSP server.
> I finally have all that straightened out on the home lab.
>
> Goose
>
> Tom Brown wrote:
>
> > Take a look at them if you have time. Install them on a FreeBox2 spec
> > machine and report findings to FreeGeek Michiana
> > <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> > At 01:03 PM 5/5/05 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >> I read this on a board:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> MTHedded
> >>
> >> Mar 21 2005, 03:07 PM
> >>
> >> In my computer recycling group, we've been trying practically every
> >> distro out there to see what works best. The machines donated to the
> >> group range from the naturally old, slow systems with little or no
> >> horsepower to them, to some that are fairly decent newer PC's.
> >>
> >> We've found some that work pretty well, three in particular, that
> >> we're pretty well stuck on now. All 3 are Debian based. BeatriX for
> >> our oldest machines, Ubuntu for the midlle-of-the-road PCs, and Mepis
> >> for the higher-end stuff. We've even discovered that there are a lot
> >> of winmodems that work great under this system.
> >>
> >> Has anyone else tried these 3 distros, especially MEPIS? What kind of
> >> luck are you having? And finally, does anyone have a more complete
> >> list of winmodems that they know will work under MEPIS? The list on
> >> the Mepis website and in their forums is less than helpful, as we've
> >> only found 4 winmodems in their lists, but know of quite a few that
> >> actually work fine and just aren't documented.
> >>
> >> We're even considering purchasing large lots of two or three
> >> different winmodems to put into the systems we reuse/refurbish, so
> >> that we have a standard base to work from. So far, we're all pretty
> >> impressed by both Mepis and BeatriX, how easy it is to install (one
> >> new volunteer with very little experience managed to PROPERLY install
> >> BOTH the new SimplyMepis and BeatriX WITHOUT ANY HELP!!!) Our jaws
> >> were just dropping!
> >>
> >> And nearly everything is usable, even by n00bz , without little or no
> >> learning curve. Is anyone else having this sort of luck with these
> >> distros?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I tried the Beatrix but it has a bug in the install procedure, and I
> >> stopped with that one for now.
> >>
> >> The I read about morphix (morphix.org).Ã That one has a lightgui with
> >> xfce that looks good.Ã IÃââll get back to you when I see how it
> >> handles sound cards.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Rick
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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