win 98 or linux?
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| Hi I have an old PC that I wish to use for blitzmax DEV. The IDE says its not compatible with win98...is there a different compatible version? If not then what version of linux is good for old system with <100MB of RAM and has a good installer like Ubuntu (with hard drive partitioner built in). |
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| Xubuntu |
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| I would love to use a variant of Ubuntu because the latest versions automatically install OpenGL drivers. Xubuntu uses a different front-end but it still needs about 256MB of RAm at least |
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| It uses a different front-end but it still needs about 512MB of RAm at least I am not sure where you get this info, but perhaps you should contact them to update their site to the new info you have provided.Like their site says, it runs fine on a 128MB system for me. Since you do not know how much RAM you have (<100MB is not useful as it could be 1 MB, 4MB, 64MB (anything less than 100MB)), it is going to be hard for anybody to help. |
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| its 96MB When I used Xubuntu on a system with 256 MB it ran very slowly but when I bought another 512MB it ran fine. Maybe I was doing something wrong? |
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| If you look on the Product Updates page, there's a 1.30 IDE which is meant to be 98 compatible. I hope you never have to build any modules with your old PC... well, perhaps over-night ;-) |
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| http://www.puppylinux.org/ Perfect for you. Not sure if BM runs on it though. I believe I got it to work but can't recall now. |
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| 96mb? Forget any Linux with GUI, go for Win98. Although not as stable as Linux, it will run much faster. (Yes, I tested it a lot to come to this conclusion!) |
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| I tried it on win98 and had some strange errors, then I installed fluxbuntu it works good so far, havent installed the necessary libraries to use blitzmax yet though |
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| Wow, nice one. Fluxbuntu is cool. |
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| Install archlinux and xfce, the system is below 100mb of ram.. Although that requires some linux knowledge, but it's easy and there's great WIKIs to configure it. there's alos damn small linux, but I haven't used it. |
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| Hmm, fluxbuntu is like version 7 of Ubuntu which cant install libx11-dev without complaining of dependency issues. I even updated it to version 8 but then I lost internet connection and browser. Has anyone used blitzmax on puppylinux or archlinux? |
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| No idea, just try them out and let us know if it works I guess. You could also use Knoppix and PenDrive. http://www.knoppix.net/ http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ |
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| BlitzMax works fine on Archlinux. |
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| I installed archlinux but I cant get the internet connection working to install a desktop environment. I am asking at their forums for help |
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| Wired internet connection should work out of the box, WLAN is somewhat trickier in CLI, but should be easy in a desktop environment. |
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| 96mb? Forget any Linux with GUI, go for Win98. Although not as stable as Linux, it will run much faster. (Yes, I tested it a lot to come to this conclusion!) What did you test it with? I have a 100mhz 486DX4 laptop with 64meg and it runs DSL beautifully, much better (and smaller) than w9x. |
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| I installed Xubuntu in the end, its the only one that lets me go online |
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| They all usually do if you know how ;) |
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| Xubuntu was too slow, so I tried Arch again, its pretty good, |
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