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    What's better than SmallLinux ...

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by brainiac88, Dec 10, 2008.

  1. brainiac88

    brainiac88 Notebook Enthusiast

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    ... for a P3-600/256MB Fujitsu B2545?

    Needs to run browser only but must play flash with audio and wireless LAN.
     
    brainiac88, Dec 10, 2008
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    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    You can try out the LiveCD of Xubuntu
     
    atbnet, Dec 10, 2008
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    antix, puppy ...
     
    ivar, Dec 10, 2008
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  4. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Unfortunately you may run into trouble running Flash applications on a Pentium 3 because they seem to be quite demanding no matter what you do.
     
    Bog, Dec 10, 2008
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    you could give the new zenwalk a spin
     
    v1k1ng1001, Dec 10, 2008
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    Arch Linux.

    A regular arch install gives you nothing more then a base system. This allows you to install only the stuff you need. Which gives you a very streamlined system. Installing stuff is also not hard at all, as it has an excellent pkg management system called Pacman which is similar to Debian's APT.
     
    dakor, Dec 11, 2008
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    Puppy Linux is great. I carry mine around on a 2 Gb flash drive.
     
    cpaxson, Dec 11, 2008
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  8. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    QFT. My 2GHz Core 2 Duo won't even play flash video at full screen. Flash video is usually H.264 compressed, which is very CPU intensive compared to other formats, but it really compacts the video to a much smaller download for the quality you get out. You may just be out of luck getting Flash video (or games) to play on that machine.
     
    Pitabred, Dec 12, 2008
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  9. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    D -amnSmallLinux is like the least resource intensive distro available that still includes a pretty fully featured GUI. I think that's your best bet, but as others mentioned - Flash is CPU intensive. As long as you're not planning on playing lots of flash games or watch large videos I think you'll be fine. I doubt it will have a problem with sites like youtube (though maybe with the new high def youtube - who knows?)
     
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    @Pitabred: I strongly doubt it's always H.264, because I somehow must have managed to watch standard quality YouTube on a P2/350 with 384 MB of RAM and Firefox 3 on Windows 2000 (didn't try it out on the Linux partition). You could almost count the frames, but audio was OK. However, most other Flash video services and Youtube's high quality setting instantly made Firefox crash on that old sucker...
     
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    No, it's definitely not always H.264. But all of the codecs are CPU intensive. They want as small of a video download as possible, but as high of quality as they can get. And in that case, CPU loses. It's a typical 3-sided triangle basically: small file size, high quality, low CPU requirements, choose two. Flash designers have made the decision for a small file at high quality, since new CPU's are almost all fast enough. According to that article, they targeted Flash 8 (we're up to 10 now) at 500MHz P3's. That just barely puts the proposed laptop in the territory, and that was what, 3 years ago?
     
    Pitabred, Dec 12, 2008
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