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Introductions / New sign-up
« on: February 19, 2016, 08:35:25 PM »
I found this site yesterday and have decided to give wattOS a try on an old Windows 2000 PC I have that was about to take a one-way trip to the recycling centre. As it is pretty low-spec -- 256Mb RAM, 800Mhz PIII, 20Gb disk -- I decided to install the 32bit Microwatt distro.
First time round I ticked the 'download upgrades' and 'Use VLM' boxes. After 4 hours the installation crashed. So, I tried again, but this time left the boxes un-ticked. The next installation took an hour and has just finished. At first sight everything is now OK, so maybe there is a compatibility issue with the updates or a VLM issue.
I am off to have a play now. I am new to Linux so I have got some learning to do. First off I plan to install Python and Geany. Is this OK to do under this distro, or should I have gone for the LXDE version?
First time round I ticked the 'download upgrades' and 'Use VLM' boxes. After 4 hours the installation crashed. So, I tried again, but this time left the boxes un-ticked. The next installation took an hour and has just finished. At first sight everything is now OK, so maybe there is a compatibility issue with the updates or a VLM issue.
I am off to have a play now. I am new to Linux so I have got some learning to do. First off I plan to install Python and Geany. Is this OK to do under this distro, or should I have gone for the LXDE version?