[NetBehaviour] linux laptops
helen varley jamieson
helen at creative-catalyst.com
Wed May 24 14:06:21 CEST 2017
i don't know about all mobile devices, but fairphone has a forum of
alternative operating systems:
https://forum.fairphone.com/c/software/alternative-oses
(i don't have actual experience of any of them, i'm just using the
standard fairphone kola nut OS)
h : )
On 23.05.2017 23:22, x wrote:
>
> oh.. operating systems..
> just had over a month of being on road and having to keep
> technologically cheap yet light..
> hence still suffering android..
>
> am i missing something or there is a complete and utter absence of
> quality free operating system for mobile devices?
>
> rant apart 😃 if people need a light, Graphical and upto date os for
> an old netbook laptop etc
> maybe check puppylinux,?
> you can get, in a sense, latest ubuntu or slackware running on an old
> or new netbook
> without habing to deal with the commandline bits..
>
> ciao from brasilia.
> aharon
> xxx
>
> --
> Sent from myMail for Android
>
> Monday, 22 May 2017, 10:22pm -03:00 from Alan Sondheim
> sondheim at panix.com <mailto:sondheim at panix.com>:
>
>
>
>
>
> It installed quickly for me. I think there's a way to get a
> graphic os on
> it but I haven't tried. Used to use Cygwin and still have it!
>
> - Alan
>
> On Tue, 23 May 2017, James Morris wrote:
>
> > It's only really the command line tools (which is still a lot!).
> >
> > I got quite excited about it at work where I'm using a few BASH
> scripts with
> > Cygwin on a regular basis. Unfortunately the Windows 10
> Anniversary update
> > which contains the Linux tools consistently fails to install -
> and takes 3/4
> > hour to not install :-(
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 22/05/17 23:40, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> >>
> >> Fwiw, one thing worth noting - for those who are using limited
> memory (like
> >> my netbook), Midori's an excellent browser -
> >> Also wanted to mention that you can open up Ubuntu in Win10 - I
> have it
> >> working there as well. It comes with the OS,
> >>
> >> - Alan
> >>
> >> On Mon, 22 May 2017, helen varley jamieson wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> thanks alan :)
> >>>
> >>> i have noticed how much less space the OS needs, & how quickly
> everything
> >>> runs!
> >>>
> >>> h : )
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 22.05.2017 18:59, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I use linux on my older laptops; it's easy to install; in fact
> >>> I'm on a Dell netbook now with only 2 gig of ram and it runs
> >>> fine. One good thing about the OS is that you can install a
> >>> different one in maybe 15 minutes, so you can tailor the linux
> >>> distro to your needs. Fwiw, I use linux mint for the most part,
> >>> lots of terminal stuff.
> >>>
> >>> Good luck with this!
> >>>
> >>> - Alan
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 22 May 2017, helen varley jamieson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>> more than a year ago i wrote to this list asking for
> >>> advice about buying a
> >>> linux laptop. it took me a while, but i'm now
> >>> happily working with ubuntu
> >>> mate on a no-brand machine :)
> >>>
> >>> i spent quite a lot of time looking at second-hand &
> >>> B-ware (ex-display)
> >>> machines, & also at new models (lenovo, dell, hp,
> >>> acer, asus, etc etc ... )
> >>> & got quite overwhelmed by the choice & variables.
> >>> nothing was exactly what
> >>> i wanted, & i couldn't decide on what to compromise.
> >>> i had a couple of
> >>> things that were definite - not bigger than 14",
> >>> must have ethernet port,
> >>> prefereably separate audio in & out; so that
> >>> narrowed things down quite a
> >>> bit, but still i wasn't finding anything that felt
> >>> right.
> >>>
> >>> then i found a uk company that sells no-brand
> >>> laptops with linux
> >>> pre-installed (https://www.entroware.com). i could
> >>> choose the hard drive,
> >>> RAM, keyboard layout, etc & it arrived 5 days after
> >>> i ordered it. i took it
> >>> out of the box, turned it on, & started using it.
> >>> the trickiest thing i've
> >>> had to do so far was use the command line to get it
> >>> to talk nicely to my
> >>> printer - & i managed that without incident.
> >>>
> >>> i'm still adjusting to the non-mac keyboard
> >>> shortcuts - it's easier to take
> >>> a screenshot but more difficult to do an umlaut (?),
> >>> & there are a couple of
> >>> things i still need to work out. & one loss is that
> >>> there are no linux
> >>> drivers for my wireless webcam, so i'm back to a
> >>> tethered webcam for now.
> >>> but it is soooo much faster than my old mac, & i've
> >>> found most of the
> >>> software that i need.
> >>>
> >>> so if anyone else out there is also considering
> >>> making the switch to linux,
> >>> i say - just do it! :)
> >>>
> >>> h : )
> >>> --
> >>> helen varley jamieson
> >>> helen at creative-catalyst.com <mailto:helen at creative-catalyst.com>
> >>> http://www.creative-catalyst.com
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> >>>
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> >>>
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> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> helen varley jamieson
> >>> helen at creative-catalyst.com <mailto:helen at creative-catalyst.com>
> >>> http://www.creative-catalyst.com
> >>> http://www.upstage.org.nz
> >>>
> >>> We have a situation, Coventry!
> >>> 24 November 2016
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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helen varley jamieson
helen at creative-catalyst.com <mailto:helen at creative-catalyst.com>
http://www.creative-catalyst.com
http://www.upstage.org.nz
*We have a situation, Coventry! <http://www.wehaveasituation.net/?p=1402>*
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