Comments on: Fluxbuntu 7.10 RC on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb

By: FredW

FredW — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:15:50 +0000

To Scholarship
1. No frugal install. Fluxbuntu expects a parition at least a gig in size to install sto.
2. Use the Speed Up Gutsy Guide http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/howto-set-up-gutsy-for-speed/ and use “lite” applications wherever possible. Kazehakase instead of firefox. Abiword and Gnumeric instead of Openoffice.
3. Yes, because it is Ubuntu based it has good wireless support.
4. No. It is going to run slower than puppy. Depending on your hardware and how fluxbuntu is configured it may not be that much slower. But the amount of software available for fluxbuntu is much greater than what is available for puppy.

I would say if you are happy with Puppy, stick with it. However if there is software you want to run and puppy does not have it. Then I would try fluxbuntu.

By: Scholarship

Scholarship — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:53:35 +0000

Hello K.mandla, now I’m using PuppyLinux for my daily activity. I’ll migrate to Fluxbuntu.
My PC specs :
Linux puppypc 2.6.21.7 #1 Sun Sep 9 02:29:54 GMT-8 2007 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux. RAM: 256 MB. HDD 2.1 GB. CDRW Samsung 52x.
These are my questions :
1. Can fluxbuntu run frugal install on HD ? Like knoppix with persistent home directory or puppy with pup_save.2fs.
2. With 2.1 GB HDD, What can I do with Fluxbuntu to optimize my daily activities ?
3. I plan to use Fluxbuntu for longterm and use it for my mobile OS. Is Fluxbuntu good for me for these ?
4. Before using Puppy Linux now, I removed Ubuntu from my PC because it was very slow for my PC. And I do not like to reconfigured, customize, etc, to make it fast. Can Fluxbuntu run faster than Puppy Linux ?

I’m sorry, if my questions make you sad. Regards and Thanks.
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By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:18:23 +0000

Back in the days i used to run a K6-350 / 64MB and it was fast with Linux. I think I used FVWM and KDE 1.0. It was state-of-art computing.

Why is so difficult today to ran a lightweight distro on this kind of systems?

By: A.ferr

A.ferr — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:40:12 +0000

Nice review, thanks. I’ve got a painfully slow PII 333Mhz (256 Mb ram) here and I am going to try your setup. I’ve also got a 400 Mhz PII (256 Mb ram again) running very well a Xubuntu 7.10. DSL IMO is also worth a look, but it can be more painful to get up and running.

By: gtcaz

gtcaz — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:17:39 +0000

(oops — fatfinger!) all on a 366MHz Celeron laptop with 190MB ram.

By: gtcaz

gtcaz — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:14:41 +0000

Oh, and I take it back that sound isn’t working; turns out it’s working great. I’m streaming Groove Salad aacPlus using VLC while playing this, all on

By: gtcaz

gtcaz — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:54:19 +0000

Fixed some of the frustrating slowness by replacing the default terminal app with mrxvt. Aterm was also fast, but I liked the tabs and other features of mrxvt.

By: gtcaz

gtcaz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:00:05 +0000

This has been the only distro I’ve tried that reliably detects my WiFi card and works out of the box for my ancient iSeries 2611 Thinkpad. Only problems are, as you mention, the super-long boot times and no sound (yet!). Also, Kazehakase was way slower than the Firefox build I installed via apt-get. Still trying some other options, but at least I’ve got a working system with wifi, and that’s key. I do find customizing Rox a bit opaque so far, and some things (video) seem slower than I think they should be.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:05:26 +0000

Thanks. I never did chase that down; thanks for doing the dirty work for me. Cheers!

By: JPascal

JPascal — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:20:57 +0000

Ooops - I just found the answer for the triple cursor: add the following line to the Lynx device section, in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
option “HWCursor” “false”

Hope this can help someone…