On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:58:31 -0500, Andrew Choens <andy.choens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hey, I'm sort of new to *nix in general and very new to FC3, which I have just > > installed on a PII 350, 64MB Ram, 4,3G HD. It is a dual boot with WIN 98 SE. > > The following are a couple questions which I haven't been able to figure out: > > Welcome to the party. This isn't going to be the easiest sort of > thing to do. It CAN be done, but you will have to be willing to learn > quite a bit. I'll try to spend a few minutes here and see if I can > point you in some good directions to read. > > You might want to check out a distro like Peanut Linux that was meant > for older systems. Go to www.distrowatch.com and check out what > distros there are for systems like yours. Otherwise you'll be doing > this by hand. > > Even if you decide to continue wearing the Fedora, you might get some > "best of small and fast breed" suggestions from those distros, since > that's what they specialize in. > > > > > 1.My specs are far from optimal; gnome absolutely crawls, I don't much care > > for FCE, and I haven't yet tried KDE. All I would really like is something > > simple with a nice fast file browser. > > > > You can forget about KDE or GNOME. Honestly, I like XFCE4.2 on a > lower grade system that I have. Seriously. google for their homepage > and try the new 4.2. It is MUCH better than what comes with Fedora. > > > A friend has recomended Afterstep, however the latest version of Fedora Core > > for which RPM's are available is FC2. Can this afterstep be installed on > > FC3? In general can RPMs for earlier versions of FC be installed on later > > versions? > > > > I doubt you will run into any problems with this. You could also > check out Window Maker. I think it's kinda neat, and is part of the > remnants of the attempt to port Next Step to Linux. There's a whole > world of little apps out there to experiement with. I don't know how > mature/stable/useful any of the Next Step (or is it open step?) stuff > is, but I know Window Maker is solid, I used it before using XFCE4. > But, Window Maker doesn't have any file browsers, which XFCE does. > You might want to try > > http://www.hi-net.cz/blaza/bfcommander/en/index.html > > or > > http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/ > > > Is Afterstep even a good idea? Are there other, better options for a low-end > > system like mine? > > > > Windowmaker...nice and pretty. FVWM...blisteringly fast, but I think > it's ugly. Blackbox..hard to configure but it's fast as greased > lightning, etc. > > > 2. At the moment I only have X11 installed, which is good enough for now, > > except that I cannot figure out how to mount my digital camera through usb (I > > use it as a thumbdrive) Gnome would do this automatically, creating an icon > > named 'NO_NAME' on the desktop. Under X-11 a folder called 'NO_NAME' appears > > in /media/ but it contains nothing. I have figured out how to mount hard > > drive partitions and cd's using the mount command, and how to edit the fstab > > table, however I have no idea which device I should be trying to mount. Also, > > what format would an Olympus camera use to format XD cards? vfat? > > > > I have no idea what file format XD cards use, sorry. > > > 3. I discovered the 'alias' command today, and was very dissapointed to > > discover that it only seems to apply to 1 session in one terminal window. I > > would like to be able to type one word into the terminal, say "collins.exe" > > instead of "WINEDLLOVERRIDES=riched20,riched32=n wine /C/Program\ > > Files/Collins/Master\ Dictionary/Collins.exe" whenever I want to use my > > dictionary. Is there something similar to alias only perminant? > > > > The other guy was right on the money. Stick your aliases at the end > of your .bashrc file and they will load automatically every time YOU > log in. Note: If you create another user, they will NOT have this > set up until you add it to their .bashrc in their home directory. > > > 4. I don't have a television, much less a dvd player in my apartment, however > > I would like to be able to watch DVD's. What is the minimum for acceptable > > mpeg2 decoding in Mplayer? is such a thing possible on a PIII 350? > > > > I don't know. I wouldn't use Mplayer on your system. Look at ogle. > It should be smaller and faster. Another good option might be the > videolanclient (vlc) > > > 4.5 If I do get a DVD drive, it seems that I might as well spend a few extra > > euros and get a new dual layer burner. Are any of these compatible with FC3? > > is there a hardware compatibility database anywhere? Are there minimum > > hardware requirements for DVD burning which I cannot meet? (some guy at the > > computer shop was telling me that there were, but I don't see how burning a > > DVD is any more processor intensive than copying a file) > > You will not have problems burning data to a DVD drive. The problem is processing power to encode and decode video. Your computer is not fast enough to play DVD movies. You need at least a 600 MHz PII. > > Yeah there is a list...can't remember what it's called though. > > > Thanks in advance for any advice you have on any of these subjects, > > -Zoe > > > > I said alot in this. I left a bunch of details out. If you get stuck > trying to get something that I mentionned to install feel free to > email me directly and I'll see what I can do to help you. I have most > of that stuff installed on my system or did at one point. To help > yourself fix dependency issues, and to find most of what I just > mentionned, I would get apt-get. > > Google for freshrpms. Download apt-get and then follow the directions > it will give you after installing if with rpm -ivh apt*rpm as user > root. Then use it to install synaptic. It will be slow on your > system, but the GUI might be worth it. > > La Paz > --andy > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
