[ale] Basic/playing-around distro

[Boris Borisov]

I've been following Androidx86 from version 1.3 forward. If you don't have
OpenGL supported video card with driver installed redrawing of the screen
could be painfully slow. No much of experience with remixOS.

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Sergio Chaves <sergio.chaves at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Wait! Don't junk it just yet! :-)
> You may want to try this Android Fore PC distribution -
> http://www.jide.com/remixos-for-pc . It works perfectly and it is
> lightning fast . Play Store works too. You can install it to an USB drive
> or a HD.
> The installer works from within Windows as an .exe file. I used the 32 Gig
> option The installer crashed on me a couple of times but I just clicked on
> "reinstall using the standard options" from the Windows crash report. The
> only "funny" thing is that it behaves like a phone. A little different when
> using the mouse to make screens go up, etc.
> It recognized all my hardware and installed all the drivers without a
> problem.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Ken Cochran <kwc at shell.theworld.com>
> wrote:
>
>> See interspersed, thanks...
>>
>> > From: Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com>
>> > Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 18:13:59 -0400
>> > To: kwc at theworld.com, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>> > Subject: Re: [ale] Basic/playing-around distro
>> >
>> > Any heavy lifting modern browser would kill that computer. You
>>
>> Ya, was afraid of that, sounds like I need to make me
>> a lil'trip to the likes of Microcenter & find some kind of
>> refurb itty-bitty box for this...
>>
>> > have to restrict yourself to very light window manager. And
>> > some alternative browsers. There is browsers out there that
>> > use modern rendering kits but don't have all the capabilities
>> > of Mozilla Chrome IE or whatever. Midori is good example of
>> > light but in same time browser with modern rendering engine.
>>
>> [... Debian base/IceWM/Mozilla ...]
>> [... gaming leftovers ...]
>>
>> Ok, I'll be a bit more specific:
>> I/we need some kinda thing for my parents & their office staff
>> (only a few people) to access the likes of personal email
>> completely separately from the internal company/office private
>> network, which blocks Just About Everything.  (& it's Windows
>> anyway, ewww...)
>>
>> Looks like that old XP box might just need to be Put Out Of Its
>> Misery I guess.  So, I need to find "something."  Thanks, Ken
>>
>> > On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Ken Cochran <kwc at shell.theworld.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi again ALErs, nice thread on NAS recommendations, sounds
>> > > like it would be an awesome meeting topic too.
>> > >
>> > > Another looking-around question/need:
>> > >
>> > > Need some kind of distro appropriate for what I'll call a
>> > > "semi-kiosk" computer; best I can tell, all it needs to run
>> > > are the following:
>> > >
>> > > - Browser (probably Firefox unless someone can recommend
>> > >   better), especially for web-email a la gmail
>> > > - shell (duh)
>> > > - probably camera/photo ingest
>> > >
>> > > Current plan is to repurpose an old HP desktop machine that
>> > > currently runs WinXP.  It is a P4 (32-bit), with 1gb RAM & I'll
>> > > probably replace its hdd so as to not lose what's on it now.
>> > > (Right now it's pretty much a dedicated Quickbooks & word
>> > > processing box & NEVER connects to ANY network.)
>> > >
>> > > Looking for a distro that I don't have to mess-around with
>> > > much, e.g. some kind of analogue to Software Update on M$
>> > > & Apple products.  Ideas?  Naturally, FAQ/doc pointers are
>> > > welcome, as well as FMs to RT :)
>> > >
>> > > Thanks, Ken
>> > >
>> > > Kenneth Cochran         | () ASCII Ribbon Campaign
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