Old rig, let's play

[ivanovnegro]

Ok I already mentioned I have a very old rig, maybe more than seven years old with only 890 MB RAM and 128 MB for the ATI gfx. It is a usable Chinese made laptop. I think the company was from Taiwan.
Now I want to put, test and try some distros/spins (BBQ, Debian's, Slack, BSDs etc).
The best one wins if I am really happy with the performance and it will stay on it.

The first OS on it was XP and ran great, then it had Xubuntu and it was fine but I think nowadays Xubuntu is too much. I already tried Salix OS and it was really good though I know we can do better.

At least I think it should be something more like Openbox, JWM, IceWM and finally smaller WMs. I really had no time to play so much with our menu but now I can. All of you that tried some more recent spins, recommendations por favor. Of course on this one I have to see if sid is an option at all because of the proprietary gfx card.

I am sure it will be fun and I will feel like a child exploring new stuff.

Right now I cannot post anything interesting from the machine as it has no internet connection. The wifi card is broken and I need a cable.

[arnold]

I would try the latest nox with DWM on it.

[rust collector]

If you like xubuntu. try proof!
Any of the newer bbq spins should work, I guess.
I am really liking cocks on ya, the evilwm spin.
break and smoothie are my other favorites at the moment.

[machinebacon]

If you want to stay stable, there's not much choice ATM. You can add XFCE4 on top with the combo:

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ins dbus-x11 consolekit xfce4-panel xfwm4 xfdesktop4

plus your favorite whatevers, and starting the fucker with

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exec dbus-launch  startxfce4 --with-ck-launch

This should be identical to ^ Proof mentioned before. Add customer launchers for shutdown (they are in sudoers, so you can directly point as "sudo poweroff" or "sudo reboot") and you don't even need polkit rules and shit.

Else what Arnold says, take noX http://www.linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2382
and build it up as described here: http://www.linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.p ... 053#p45053

As for light WMs, I am still a big fan of spectrwm. Adding xfwm4 without much crap on top of X11 is not much heavier, by the way, you will clock in at around 60MB RAM or even a bit less.

[wuxmedia]

<troll>How about the Bunsenlabs?</troll>

[machinebacon]

[troll]
wuxmedia just made a valid point.
rhowaldt, check your PM.

I won't be able to answer your PM until next week because I will be out fishing.
[/troll]

[rhowaldt]

/ENOGUH!

[Snap]

<troll>How about the Bunsenlabs?</troll>

Or starting from one of the last two BBQ spins on jessie and building it up grabbing bits from it and leaving loads of junk aside. Much better option IMHO. Also this is a nice alternative (leaving a few stuff away too).

https://github.com/brontosaurusrex/postbang

[machinebacon]

openbox jessie spin is being uploaded, ETA 28 minutes...

[arnold]

^ Well, that sounds like just the ticket.

[vic]

^Word! :)

[ivanovnegro]

I will definitely boot to Space Oddity. Thanks Julius. This rig is still just a playground for now.