1 Mar
2009
1 Mar
'09
2:48 p.m.
Hi all, I need your advice,
I've got a MacBook with 1.83 Ghz Intel Core Duo and 512 MB ram.
I would like to install Linux on it (single or dualboot with Mac).
I would like something lightweight, as I can't upgrade the memory.
I will use it for School Music Teacher work mainly (word program, .some
basic music recording, internet)
Any suggestions in lightweight distro and Applications?
While we are at it, any suggestions with Online or OS independent Life
Organizers (GTD or not?)
Feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Viktor
1 Mar
1 Mar
3:16 p.m.
Hello Viktor!
If you don't rely on a GUI you could use grml at
http://grml.org
If you do need GUI, I'd suggest Debian from
http://www.debian.org
As to music software: I've heard that some schools use csound, which is
nice, because there are lots of ways to operate in non-realtime. I believe,
that Csound has GUI-frontends. Besids that there's CLM (common lisp music),
SuperCollider3 (SC3), which I think comes directly with a GUI.
For recording software, best completely rely on someone else's feedback.
I hope that helps!
Kindest regards
Julien
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3:17 p.m.
On Sun, March 1, 2009 12:48 pm, Viktor Mastoridis wrote:
I've got a MacBook with 1.83 Ghz Intel Core Duo
and 512 MB ram.
I would like to install Linux on it (single or dualboot with Mac).
I would like something lightweight, as I can't upgrade the memory.
I've used a few lightweight distros like DamnSmallLinux, Puppy Linux,
Vector Linux... and they're not bad. Since they're not "main-stream,"
though, they don't get updated as quickly as I would prefer. (...but
maybe I didn't give them a chance...)
In my experience, most main-stream distros can be made relatively
lightweight by:
* Choosing a different Desktop environment. Gnome and KDE
are nicely fully-featured... but have a lot of extra
fluff running in the background. Switch to something
like Fluxbox, IceWM, FVWM, or (if you're really hard-core)
blackbox.
* Disable and uninstall extra stuff that you don't need.
If you don't need a mail server, NFS, Samba, CUPS, Apache,
HAL, dbus, etc. -- Disable or uninstall them. If you only
need them occasionally, enable them only when you need them.
* Applications: Instead of the huge OpenOffice... try Gnumeric
(spreadsheet) and Abiword (word processor).
I run several desktops with 500 to 800Mhz processors and 192 to 384 MB of
RAM. I use Debian-based OS's (Debian, Ubuntu, and 64 Studio) on them. I
get good performace out of them, even with Gnome or KDE. (But I usually
use blackbox and get better than good performance.) I use one of the
machines for audio.
HTH,
Gabriel
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G a b r i e l M B e d d i n g f i e l d
2 Mar
2 Mar
4:05 a.m.
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield
<gabriel(a)teuton.org> wrote:
In my experience, most main-stream distros can be made relatively
lightweight by:
* Choosing a different Desktop environment. Gnome and KDE
are nicely fully-featured... but have a lot of extra
fluff running in the background. Switch to something
like Fluxbox, IceWM, FVWM, or (if you're really hard-core)
blackbox.
* Disable and uninstall extra stuff that you don't need.
If you don't need a mail server, NFS, Samba, CUPS, Apache,
HAL, dbus, etc. -- Disable or uninstall them. If you only
need them occasionally, enable them only when you need them.
i've always been curious about which programs/services i can get rid
of, but i've been too chicken to experiment first hand, not wanting to
break a working system. can you point to some good resources to
determine which stuff is expendable for a music-oriented system?
FWIW, i've been running xubuntu, like someone else has already
suggested, works great.
6 Mar
6 Mar
8:34 a.m.
Dear Julien, Gabriel, 2+, Jeremiah, Jaromir, David, Bernie,
Thank you so much for your responses. It's really helpful.
I will try your suggestions ASAP.
Viktor
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:05 AM, bernie arai <bernie.arai(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Gabriel M.
Beddingfield
<gabriel(a)teuton.org> wrote:
In my experience, most main-stream distros can be made relatively
lightweight by:
* Choosing a different Desktop environment. Gnome and KDE
are nicely fully-featured... but have a lot of extra
fluff running in the background. Switch to something
like Fluxbox, IceWM, FVWM, or (if you're really hard-core)
blackbox.
* Disable and uninstall extra stuff that you don't need.
If you don't need a mail server, NFS, Samba, CUPS, Apache,
HAL, dbus, etc. -- Disable or uninstall them. If you only
need them occasionally, enable them only when you need them.
i've always been curious about which programs/services i can get rid
of, but i've been too chicken to experiment first hand, not wanting to
break a working system. can you point to some good resources to
determine which stuff is expendable for a music-oriented system?
FWIW, i've been running xubuntu, like someone else has already
suggested, works great.
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1 Mar
3:25 p.m.
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 18:48 +0000, Viktor Mastoridis wrote:
Hi all, I need your advice,
I've got a MacBook with 1.83 Ghz Intel Core Duo and 512 MB ram.
I would like to install Linux on it (single or dualboot with Mac).
I would like something lightweight, as I can't upgrade the memory.
I will use it for School Music Teacher work mainly (word
program, .some basic music recording, internet)
Any suggestions in lightweight distro and Applications?
I would suggest debian or a debian based distro like xubuntu. Xubuntu
should be light enough. It is not you can install fluxbox and have that
be your default.
While we are at it, any suggestions with Online or OS
independent Life
Organizers (GTD or not?)
I also teach and I keep track of lessons in Google Calendar. You can
sync google calendar with evolution or sunbird fairly easily. I actually
sync it with my iphone. Other than that I keep lesson files for each
student (plain text at the moment) of each student keeping track of
excused absences and their lesson plan. Later I may migrate to using xml
and make a gtk front end in c.
Jeremiah
Feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Viktor
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4:23 p.m.
< Hi all, I need your advice,
<
< I've got a MacBook with 1.83 Ghz Intel Core Duo and 512 MB ram.
<
< I would like to install Linux on it (single or dualboot with Mac).
< I would like something lightweight, as I can't upgrade the memory.
< I will use it for School Music Teacher work mainly (word program, .some
< basic music recording, internet)
<
< Any suggestions in lightweight distro and Applications?
<
< While we are at it, any suggestions with Online or OS independent Life
< Organizers (GTD or not?)
<
< Feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Hi,
You can try 64studio ... on media specialized linux distro with rt kernel included.
Now is there 3.0 beta2 with is already very stable and 3.0 release will be probably very
soon .
On Ubuntu Hardy based distro. Gnome + metacity are light ;)
Worth to try.
http://www.64studio.com/
Cheers
mira
2 Mar
2 Mar
4:03 a.m.
On Sunday 01 March 2009 20:48:35 Viktor Mastoridis wrote:
Hi all, I need your advice,
I've got a MacBook with 1.83 Ghz Intel Core Duo and 512 MB ram.
I would like to install Linux on it (single or dualboot with Mac).
I would like something lightweight, as I can't upgrade the memory.
I will use it for School Music Teacher work mainly (word program, .some
basic music recording, internet)
Any suggestions in lightweight distro and Applications?
While we are at it, any suggestions with Online or OS independent Life
Organizers (GTD or not?)
Feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Regular distros such as Debian will run just fine in 512m. Nothing to do with
dual-boot. If the overblown GUIs like kde or gnome seem slow, use something
lighter such as xfce.
Want a super-light distro? Look at "deli-linux" -- nothing to do with cold-
cuts -- "DEsktop-LIght". The thing will run in 32m, more apps in 64m.
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