[frgeek-michiana] Re: Vl5 on FB Spec
- From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 23:07:03 -0500
Tests for your assistant:
- How does VL 5 soho perform other than OO.org?
- How does VL 5 standard compare to VL 5 soho?
- How many desktops are installed in each?
- Do the media players work?
- Does it detect and install drivers for winmodems (which ones)?
- Do the icons and menu items work as advertised?
- What is the main file manager?
- How are the fonts?
- Are the dialup and high-speed setups bulletproof?
- Is there a useful spreadsheet?
There are three iso images in the ibiblio VL 5 directory: soho, standard
(beta release) and dynamite. Forget dynamite.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/vectorlinux/veclinux-5.0/
The standard version should run well on FB2 specs according to the docs.
otoh, VL 4.3 seems to be faster than VL 5 according to MadPenguin.
http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=3641
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/vectorlinux/docs/vl50/manuals/vl5_installation_guide_en.html#requirements
VL now has useful documentation. I skimmed it. Worth reading.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/vectorlinux/docs/
In the docs, they mention a soft modem test utility which will identify,
well...soft modems. It may be one of these.
http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/modemident.php?PHPSESSID=967027dc33f091ca41e0036199d8e5ed
Tom
At 11:54 AM 5/6/05 -0500, you wrote:
Well, with 320 MB of ram it appears twice as fast to bring it to a
tolerable speed, but definitely not recommended.
O. Jay Schlatter
Technology Director
<http://www.goodwill-ni.org/>Goodwill Industries of Michiana, Inc.
(574) 472-7383
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[mailto:frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jay Schlatter
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:37 AM
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Vl5 on FB Spec
Well&. It runs&. Kinda like windows 98 on a 386sx20 with 16mb ram.
For those of you that don t understand&. Slow. Takes over a minute to
launch OOwriter.
Opera is not installed by default, but version 8 downloads and installs
without a hitch.
It seems pretty heavy for a PII, it might do better with more memory.
I see if I can t dig some memory up and see how it run with 256 MB.
O. Jay Schlatter
Technology Director
<http://www.goodwill-ni.org/>Goodwill Industries of Michiana, Inc.
(574) 472-7383
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