hakgipc Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 hey guys i have a laptop with a dead screen and is there any projects that i can do with it regards hakgipc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabid_Marmot Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 If it has a monitor out port(which I assume it does) you could still use it. I say turn it into a server, or maybe even a media center depending the other video outputs you have available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hakgipc Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 yer its way to shit to be a media center lol ill lag playing a avi lol but it could be a server for something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Just stick Debian on it with Apache and Webmin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Linux is your friend for old any computer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Metatron: Do you have a link to a good tutorial on debian? You seem to pimp it alot around here and my interest has been piqued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Metatron: Do you have a link to a good tutorial on debian? You seem to pimp it alot around here and my interest has been piqued. It will run on nearly anything, and is very clean. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-tutorial/ http://www.aboutdebian.com/install31.htm The thing I like about Debian is it can be as light or as bloated as you like. I can run it on a P2 Laptop with 32MB of ram or a quad AMD server with 32GB of ram and it will run well on both with no problems (run Fluxbox if you’re on a P2). It makes a great desktop or server OS and I would recommend it to anyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Ubuntu is debian, VaKo, incase you didn't know. I have had succes with it. Debian is great (apt-get repositories are great) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Ubuntu is debian, VaKo, incase you didn't know. I have had succes with it. Debian is great (apt-get repositories are great) Ubuntu is not Debian, it is based on it. * Adamantix * APLINUX * BenHur * Corel Linux * Debian JP * DemoLinux * Demudi * Embedded Debian * ESware Linux * Euronode * Floppix * Gibraltar * GNUstep LIVE CD * Impi Linux * Kanotix * KNOPPIX * Libranet * Linspire * Linex * Linuxin * Linux-YeS * Linux Router Project * MEPIS * M.N.I.S. Linux * Morphix * PingOO * Progeny Linux * Prosa * RAYS LX * Stonegate * Stormix Technologies' Storm Linux. * TelemetryBox * Xandros. Are all based on Debian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 I've recently starting playing around with debian and I must say, I like it alot. It's taken place as my favorite linux distro at the moment. Aside from knoppix-std and auditor of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
degoba Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Ubuntu is debian based. It uses the debian pkg management system. Debian is Debian. Ive tried debian, and I liked it. Very customizeable like gentoo without having to compile everything for four days straight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hakgipc Posted August 13, 2006 Author Share Posted August 13, 2006 should i use something like cent os Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 If you are going to use it as a server yes, that is one of the easy options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tx Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 CentOS is a great thing if you ever need to impliment software just written for RHEL, there was whitebox before it, but yeah :) serves a perpose, debian is still MUCH more customizeable in my experience. I use CentOS just for the GFS and Cluster services support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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