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Old May 4th 09, 04:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general,microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion,microsoft.public.win3x_wfw_dos
No Alternative
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Default Good Linux alternative for Windows 9x/ME era computers.

This is a version of linux called u-lite. It is based on ubuntu, so it is
completely updatable, and uses the latest programs and browsers easily. It
can use the latest youtube and other flash video sites, for instance,
because it uses a recent version of adobe flashplayer with a modern gecko
based browser, like firefox and kazehakase. Win9x won't do this without
some major hacking.

It uses the lxde desktop so it runs on very low resource computers. You
just need about 32mb of ram, and anything over 486dx with some swap space.
That's all.

I dual booted Windows 98 with various linux for a long time, but I stuck
with mainly Win98 for as long as possible, because many of the linuxes I
used just operated too sluggishly. Unfortunately Win98 got hosed at some
point. I couldn't reinstall it from my oem compaq restore disk because I
had upgraded the hard drive and it would only install on the original
owing to some copywrite protection code. I had to resort to linux. This
caused me to hunt for lighter versions of linux. U-lite thus far is the
best one I have used.

Now some info about linux in general. Like alot of people who resort to
old versons of windows, I don't have alot of money, and linux gives me
access to thousands of good free opensource programs at the end of my
fingertips through synaptic. There are equivalents to most of the
programs I used on Win98, and when it isn't available I can generally run
my old windows 98 programs through a program called wine. I use wine
mostly for my old games.

http://u-lite.org

I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences
recently with a version Linux?

  #2  
Old May 4th 09, 04:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Alias[_30_]
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Default Good Linux alternative for Windows 9x/ME era computers.

No Alternative wrote:

Now some info about linux in general. Like alot of people who resort to
old versons of windows, I don't have alot of money, and linux gives me
access to thousands of good free opensource programs at the end of my
fingertips through synaptic. There are equivalents to most of the
programs I used on Win98, and when it isn't available I can generally run
my old windows 98 programs through a program called wine. I use wine
mostly for my old games.

http://u-lite.org

I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences
recently with a version Linux?


Thanks, I have an old machine that's running an Intel 350 with 256MB of
RAM. I'll try U-Lite on it.

Alias
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Old May 4th 09, 04:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Default Good Linux alternative for Windows 9x/ME era computers.

On Mon, 04 May 2009 15:07:58 GMT, No Alternative wrote:

I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences
recently with a version Linux?


Yes, many, but none of which are on-topic for this group, as dead as it is.

I use Slackware, which works just fine. I use an older version for an older
computer. I could probably use the current version on the older version, but
I have my reasons.

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Old May 4th 09, 10:33 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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On Mon, 4 May 2009 15:07:58 +0000 (UTC), No Alternative
wrote:



I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences
recently with a version Linux?

No thanks - I'd like to be able to read/write the same file format as
everyone else I know - without the hassle of working out what the hell
they're using to read it with.
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Old May 5th 09, 03:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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On Mon, 04 May 2009 22:33:55 +0100, Noel Paton wrote:

On Mon, 4 May 2009 15:07:58 +0000 (UTC), No Alternative
wrote:



I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences
recently with a version Linux?

No thanks - I'd like to be able to read/write the same file format as
everyone else I know - without the hassle of working out what the hell
they're using to read it with.


file formats aren't generally a problem. Linux word processors like
openoffice and abiword, read and write doc, txt, and rtf files. Linux
graphics programs like the gimp, or mtpaint, read and write gif, jpg, and
png images. Linux compression utilities will zip and unzip zip
formats. There are several programs for viewing and reading pdf , and
most media players will handle mp3, reaplpayer, and quicktime files.
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Old May 5th 09, 12:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Alias[_30_]
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No Alternative wrote:
On Mon, 04 May 2009 22:33:55 +0100, Noel Paton wrote:

On Mon, 4 May 2009 15:07:58 +0000 (UTC), No Alternative
wrote:



I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences
recently with a version Linux?

No thanks - I'd like to be able to read/write the same file format as
everyone else I know - without the hassle of working out what the hell
they're using to read it with.


file formats aren't generally a problem. Linux word processors like
openoffice and abiword, read and write doc, txt, and rtf files. Linux
graphics programs like the gimp, or mtpaint, read and write gif, jpg, and
png images. Linux compression utilities will zip and unzip zip
formats. There are several programs for viewing and reading pdf , and
most media players will handle mp3, reaplpayer, and quicktime files.


Open Office also reads docx files. Linux can also handle RAR out of the
box. The old days of Linux not being able to read MS files or interpret
NTFS have been over for a long time. If you dual boot with Windows,
Linux will be able see Windows and read or write to its partition.
Windows, OTOH, cannot see the Linux partitions, which is just as well.

Alias
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Old May 6th 09, 02:55 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Default Good Linux alternative for Windows 9x/ME era computers.

You forgot to add an 's' to 'Alternative' in order to be able to extract
'Alias' from it.
Now the 'Invaders' are here and everybody take cover!


"No Alternative" wrote in
message ...
This is a version of linux called u-lite. It is based on ubuntu, so it is
completely updatable, and uses the latest programs and browsers easily. It
can use the latest youtube and other flash video sites, for instance,
because it uses a recent version of adobe flashplayer with a modern gecko
based browser, like firefox and kazehakase. Win9x won't do this without
some major hacking.

It uses the lxde desktop so it runs on very low resource computers. You
just need about 32mb of ram, and anything over 486dx with some swap space.
That's all.

I dual booted Windows 98 with various linux for a long time, but I stuck
with mainly Win98 for as long as possible, because many of the linuxes I
used just operated too sluggishly. Unfortunately Win98 got hosed at some
point. I couldn't reinstall it from my oem compaq restore disk because I
had upgraded the hard drive and it would only install on the original
owing to some copywrite protection code. I had to resort to linux. This
caused me to hunt for lighter versions of linux. U-lite thus far is the
best one I have used.

Now some info about linux in general. Like alot of people who resort to
old versons of windows, I don't have alot of money, and linux gives me
access to thousands of good free opensource programs at the end of my
fingertips through synaptic. There are equivalents to most of the
programs I used on Win98, and when it isn't available I can generally run
my old windows 98 programs through a program called wine. I use wine
mostly for my old games.

http://u-lite.org

I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences
recently with a version Linux?

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Old May 9th 09, 10:32 PM posted to alt.windows-me,microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Greegor[_2_]
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http://groups.google.com/group/micro...62e362ec88f6bf

microsoft.public.windowsme.general

Good Linux alternative for Windows 9x/ME era computers.
1 No Alternative May 4
2 Alias May 4
3 Auric__ May 4
4 Noel Paton May 4
5 No Alternative May 4
6 Alias May 5
7 webster72n May 5

This is a version of linux called u-lite. It is based on ubuntu,
so it is completely updatable, and uses the latest programs
and browsers easily. It can use the latest youtube and
other flash video sites, for instance, because it uses a
recent version of adobe flashplayer with a modern gecko
based browser, like firefox and kazehakase. Win9x won't
do this without some major hacking.

It uses the lxde desktop so it runs on very low resource
computers. You just need about 32mb of ram, and
anything over 486dx with some swap space. That's all.

I dual booted Windows 98 with various linux for a long
time, but I stuck with mainly Win98 for as long as
possible, because many of the linuxes I used just
operated too sluggishly. Unfortunately Win98 got
hosed at some point. I couldn't reinstall it from my
oem compaq restore disk because I had upgraded
the hard drive and it would only install on the original
owing to some copywrite protection code. I had to
resort to linux. This caused me to hunt for lighter
versions of linux. U-lite thus far is the best one
I have used.

Now some info about linux in general. Like alot of
people who resort to old versons of windows, I don't
have alot of money, and linux gives me access to
thousands of good free opensource programs at
the end of my fingertips through synaptic. There
are equivalents to most of the programs I used on
Win98, and when it isn't available I can generally
run my old windows 98 programs through a program
called wine. I use wine mostly for my old games.


http://u-lite.org

I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some
good experiences recently with a version Linux?


Is there an active Linux usenet newsgroup?

I tried a few different Linux distros on various
of my older machines that run between 1 and 2 GHz.

The HARDWARE DETECT auto install stuff in most
Linux distros really impressed me.
Built in sound chips was the part I had trouble with
the most. I was dismayed to learn that even OLD
sound chips were not well supported because
they are considered OBSOLETE.

Disabling ESS or other on board sound chip
and adding in a genuine CREATIVE sound
card seems to be a helpful move.

Linux distros seem to favor Intel
processors and larger RAM than MS Windows.

I appreciated the u-lite info.

Certainly it is worthwhile to enable older
systems (Faster than 1 GHz) to continue
to function as media boxes for playing
DVD's CD's or YouTube .FLV videos
online or off line.

It just seems smart to recycle the computers
that aren't TOO slow! Call it "GREEN" if that helps!

Are there active Linux usenet newsgroups?

Or sites to help with Linux installs?
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Old May 14th 09, 03:30 AM posted to alt.windows-me,microsoft.public.windowsme.general
No Alternative[_2_]
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On Sat, 09 May 2009 14:32:06 -0700, Greegor wrote:

I am sorry I didn't see the stuff at the end of the post. Hope you're
still around.

Is there an active Linux usenet newsgroup?


Yes. The best one for u-lite would be alt.os.linux.ubuntu . There are
three good general ones I use called alt.linux , alt.os.linux ,
comp.os.linux.misc. There are like hundreds of olthers. The best place
to search is google groups because it gives you some idea of how much
traffic the group gets.



I tried a few different Linux distros on various of my older machines
that run between 1 and 2 GHz.

The HARDWARE DETECT auto install stuff in most Linux distros really
impressed me.
Built in sound chips was the part I had trouble with the most. I was
dismayed to learn that even OLD sound chips were not well supported
because they are considered OBSOLETE.


Yes, around 2002ish linux still had a problem with many old soundcards,
but this has largely been overcome. Now the problem is newish soundcards
and graphics cards.

Disabling ESS or other on board sound chip and adding in a genuine
CREATIVE sound card seems to be a helpful move.


I have an ess, on my present compaq 5184 k6-2 350mhz. There is no
problem.



Linux distros seem to favor Intel
processors and larger RAM than MS Windows.


u-lite is not as ram intensive as the others. All flavors of linux are
less processor and harddrive intensive than windows. Ram is a cheap
upgrade.

I appreciated the u-lite info.

Certainly it is worthwhile to enable older systems (Faster than 1 GHz)
to continue to function as media boxes for playing DVD's CD's or YouTube
.FLV videos
online or off line.


u-lite operates on computers much less powerful than 1ghz. Mine is only
350mhz. I operate it on another that is on pentium mmx 266 mhz, and it is
a speed demon.

It just seems smart to recycle the computers that aren't TOO slow! Call
it "GREEN" if that helps!

Are there active Linux usenet newsgroups?

Or sites to help with Linux installs?


There are many usenet groups which I have listed and there are also many
websites. u-lite has an active forum, and there are others that can help,
like justlinux.org , linuxquestions.org, and ubuntuforums.org .


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Old May 30th 09, 11:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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On Mon, 4 May 2009 15:07:58 +0000 (UTC), No Alternative
wrote:

I am sure there are others. Anyone else had some good experiences
recently with a version Linux?


I use different operating systems. Some of my boxes still run wfw3.11
and they have network and internet connection.

But in the meantime I spend most of my time with different Linux
versions. All these machines have network and internet connection, and
so every Linux box can communicate with every wfw3.11 box.

This is really funny for web development, for example, where I write
the perl and html code and run it on one of the Linux machines,
connected from one of the wfw3.11 boxes :-)

The most preferred Linux version here are Mandrake 10.1 and Mandriva
2009.0. I already tried other distros like FreeBSD, Debian, SuSE,
Caldera, Redhat and enven on one of my machines there's still Ubuntu,
but I don't like it much. I tmakes heavy use of "sudo" which, in my
opinion, is far from professional working.

One of Mandrake's / Mandriva's big advantages is the very convenient
partitioning and the professional way of configuring. - It simply
works :-)

Best regards,

Markus

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