[vox] Can anyone help?

[Scot A]

Alex,
That sounds reasonable.
I think you may need this info as well.
Pentium(R)  4 1.70 GHz CPU
1.69 GHz 1.00 GB of RAM
Thanks again for the info!
Namaste'
Scot



On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>wrote:

> On 02/14/2013 04:08 PM, Vincenzo Ampolo wrote:
> > On 02/14/2013 03:30 PM, Bill Ward wrote:
> >> Why? Is that because of gnome? How about Xubuntu?
> >
> > It's because latest unity wants 3d drivers by default.
> > I tried to run it without 3d drivers on my pc and it simply freezes or
> > is near to freeze as soon as I attached to an external monitor.
> >
> > I was good to go as soon as I installed the nvidia drivers with 3d
> support.
> >
> > And this is 2 years old pc, I can't imagine with a 10 years old one.
> >
> > This doesn't mean that you can't run it, just expect a bit of tweaking
> > with Ubuntu, the same tweaking that you would save using a Xubuntu or
> > Lubuntu (LXDE).
> >
> > If you are still going to try, let me know how does it go :)
> >
>
> I partially agree. I have Ubuntu 2d unity running fine on an atom based
> box. But yes if the machine is 10 years old some other more minimal
> distro might be better. There's also a pretty good chance the machine is
> not capable of usb booting.
>
> Lets see if we can narrow down the selection a little bit to something
> more appropriate and I can burn a couple for you (I have plenty of
> blanks that will just waste away as is).
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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