Use of Linux on low-configuration computers

1. this is an article for beginners to install, so I will not recommend debian and other releases. using redhat, turbo, and other releases will save you a lot of time, at the same time as your interest in Linux, I do not recommend redhat8.0 or later or turbo8.0 or later. It is true that the updated version means more convenient installation and better Chinese support.

1. install

This is an article for beginners, so I will not recommend debian and other releases. using redhat, turbo, and other releases will save you a lot of time, at the same time as your interest in Linux, I do not recommend redhat8.0 or later or turbo8.0 or later. It is true that the updated version means more convenient installation and better Chinese support, but also higher requirements for computers. I use redhat7.2, and turbolinuxworkworkstation is also a good version.

The selection of software packages is very important. do not select "install all" unless you really have a large hard disk. choose the gnome suite. As for the KDE suite, I didn't select it. you must install the SDK, even though you may never write a program.

Because my graphics card is very old and not compatible, my X configuration process is exceptionally smooth. if you have any friends who cannot configure X, you can search through major forums. There are many such articles.

Remember not to log on using the graphic interface.

2. localization

I will not repeat it here. I will search for it myself. There are a lot of such articles.

3. Optimization

Run the setup program as root and select "Systemservices" to remove unnecessary services. if you are like me: no firewall, no NetFileSystem, no printer, you can refer to my configuration, leaving only:

Apmd advanced power management, I am a notebook, so I open

The daemon process of the atd at program

CWnn simplified Chinese input server

Mouse under gpm consolse

Keytable keyboard ing

Network

Random number generator

Rawdevice

Sendmail

Sgi_fam

Syslog system records

Xfs font server

4. various programs

4.1 installer

Ghost source code. installation is actually very easy.

The former uses

Tar zxvf foo.tar.gz

The latter

Tar jxvf foo.tar.bz2 "to unpack. After unpacking, a directory foo will appear. enter this directory and generally run

./Configure

If not, check its INSTALL or README file.

Then run

Make

Run after running

Make install

If the software is successfully installed.

After the software is installed, you can use:

Whereis foo

To find out where the executable file is.

Anti-installation (uninstallation) is also convenient: run in the foo Directory

Make uninstall

That's all. if The foo directory has been deleted, it doesn't matter. unpackage again and run

./Configure

You can

Make uninstall

Now.

4.2 Chinese environment under consolse

It is recommended that zhcon.download the tar.gz source code package and install it easily. However, the downloading rpm Package will prompt that the library is missing and cannot be installed.

4.3 Window Manager

Gnome and KDE environments are definitely not recommended. since the machine is not good, you can try the fvwm window manager. it is powerful and occupies few resources. his configuration method can be found on some simplified Chinese web pages in google. you can also try xfce.

4.4 File manager

Try Gentoo (not the released version of Gentoo). This is a good file manager and the speed is fast. you can also try rox.

4.5 text editor

All the configuration files in Linux are almost all text files. it is really hard to find a good editor without a good one. don't use Gedit. try gvim and vim's face in X11. Nedit is also good.

4.6 browser

It takes two or three minutes to start Netscape on my machine. Fortunately, there are other browsers available for me to choose from. dillo is a fast browser, but does not support the framework or https. opare is very good. there are some excellent text browsers such as lynx, links, and w3m.

4.7 mp3 player

Discard XMMS. The text player occupies a small amount of resources and the playback quality is not reduced. mpg321 is good and easy to find. if you have higher requirements on the interface, you can try mp3blster, and the amp is also good, but it is not easy to find.

4.8 find the software that suits you

I only listed several commonly used software above. each person has various requirements for the software. when looking for the software he needs, remember to tailor the software, if a piece of software makes your hard disk crash for a few minutes, it should be replaced without a doubt.

5.x is not required
　
In fact, there are a lot of things that don't have to be done in X. for example, writing a program in zhcon is also very comfortable, and can save valuable memory space.