Virtual meetup this Sunday 2020-08-09; own mini-project

[goossbears <acohen36@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 2:22:17 AM UTC-7, trl wrote:

Yes, 

Thank you Aaron for getting the message out.  

You are welcome... went ahead and assumed the reminder was
just delayed for one reason or another, but that the virtual
meetup later this morning would certainly be happening :-)

 

I'll be there.  Probably trying to get MythTV working in 

Virtualbox.  I have a couple old drives from when I used to 

run MythTv and I'm curious to see what I have on there.  

So my plan: install Ubuntu 20.04?  and  an old version of mythTv 

then try to import the database.

My own mini-project aim for today and this upcoming week is
to install an i686 (i.e., 32bit x86) Linux distro or distros that will
still be around and maintained (hopefully!) within the next
half-dozen years onto a pair of fairly low-end laptops. 
Futhermore, and aside from possible rants from one or two
sysadmins reading this, would like to configure the i686 Linux
laptop installs so that they appear as close as possible similar
to the MS Windows 10 desktop environment (DE) that the
intended users of these low-RAM laptops prefer on their
higher-end 64bit desktop PCs, while also allowing for easy
desktop switching to the non-Windows-like,
low-RAM-requiring DE's that _I_ prefer using.
The top two contenders are....
- Debian Linux https://www.debian.org/  (DE's: XFCE, LXQt)
+and+
- Slackware Linux http://www.slackware.com/ (DE's: XFCE, FluxboxWM)

Sorry Rick and others, for various reasons, the ultimately
Debian-derived lightweight distros Devuan
GNU+Linux https://devuan.org/ , Lubuntu https://lubuntu.me/ ,
Bodhi Linux https://www.bodhilinux.com/ and a few others
don't quite make the grade here :/
-Aaron

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