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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:26 am
by Pyrite
Your specs are fine.

Linux has GUI's if you want to call it that made for slow computers with 16 or less ram.

Checkout Fluxbox ( fluxbox.sf.net )

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:45 am
by Straterra
If I were to switch to Slackware, would a GUI slow down the server that much?

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:46 am
by Pyrite
No, especially not if you use something like Blackbox/Fluxbox

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:48 am
by Straterra
Sweet...slackware looks good..Only..I have Slackware once before, and I tried to install it and Lilo was cooked...It would print 9's to the screen on boot...I had to format and repartition...

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:10 pm
by Straterra
Also..I am looking at both the slackware and the gui's website..and I can't seem to find out how to compile it with that gui..so..um..how would I?

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:18 pm
by Pyrite
./configure
make
make install (as root)

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 2:51 pm
by Straterra
Seeing as I am an EXTREME EXTREME *nux newb, can't you run the installation straight from the net? I have done this before in Red Hat and Mandrake, but I don't quite remember how.

EDIT : Are there any websites that have a list of the kernel commands on it?

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 6:20 pm
by Pyrite
kernel commands? What do you mean by that?

Installations never have run from the net man. There may be scripts that connect to the net and download the source and compile it. But that is not running anything directly from the net.

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 6:22 pm
by Straterra
Kernel commands...like su and stuff like that...

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 6:26 pm
by Pyrite
Those aren't kernel commands, those are BASH commands.

I've never heard of kernel commands, where did you heear that?

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 6:28 pm
by Straterra
From the #linux room in some big IRC server...

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 6:29 pm
by Straterra
BTW, if anyone wants a link for these commands..here is one..

http://www.ss64.com/bash/

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 6:30 pm
by Pyrite
Well there is no such thing. If there is, it would probably be just the module commands for loading and unloading modules into the kernel, but those are part of the modutils and not the kernel.

I think you just mean general Linux commands.

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 6:31 pm
by Straterra
He he he, thanks for helping a Linux choobie.

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:41 pm
by Pyrite
No prob, that's the reason I voted for this forum