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I recently D/Loaded Knoppix 7.0.2 and this week I slapped it on a notebook w/ a Single-core (like Pentium M 1.8Ghz), 2GB of DDR2 RAM, integrated X600, and a 60GB IDE drive.
Knoppix has been able to run Compiz-Fusion on most mid-end to higher-end display adapters, and let me tell you it screams on video, streaming, and other OpenGL related graphics. If you have some old unused hardware to test with, and you have ever doinked around with Compiz-Fusion, and know what it can do... try it on an older notebook with this new version.
"OOTB" I was astounded, and amazed!!!
The worst machine I ever got Compiz-fusion bells and whistles smoking on was like a Athlon64 with 512MG RAM, and an FX 5200 card. The thing was nice, but doing it all manually on I think it was Slackware 12 was a pain, not to mention video driver issues.
I just booted to the DVD with swap and ext3 partitions preset from an old Slackware install on the drive with Kernel options of tohd=/dev/sda2 and left work. The next day I came in and it was locked up, so I did a Kernel option of fromhd=/dev/sd2 and dropped some data space (10GB did take a while as did the tohd drop-off) but the thing is a SMOKING BLUR (THEN I saw the installed in the GUI, as most of the prior versions it was a script that had to be run manually.)
If I have time tomorrow I will re-fdisk and try a regular install. I tried to take a video, but I cannot aim my cell-cam with my mouth while manipulating the CTRL, ALT, and WinKey at the same time as the mouse...
CHECK IT OUT if you ever tinker.
A co-worker is going to finally build a Linux box because he saw how great it was OOTB!
Knoppix has been able to run Compiz-Fusion on most mid-end to higher-end display adapters, and let me tell you it screams on video, streaming, and other OpenGL related graphics. If you have some old unused hardware to test with, and you have ever doinked around with Compiz-Fusion, and know what it can do... try it on an older notebook with this new version.
"OOTB" I was astounded, and amazed!!!
The worst machine I ever got Compiz-fusion bells and whistles smoking on was like a Athlon64 with 512MG RAM, and an FX 5200 card. The thing was nice, but doing it all manually on I think it was Slackware 12 was a pain, not to mention video driver issues.
I just booted to the DVD with swap and ext3 partitions preset from an old Slackware install on the drive with Kernel options of tohd=/dev/sda2 and left work. The next day I came in and it was locked up, so I did a Kernel option of fromhd=/dev/sd2 and dropped some data space (10GB did take a while as did the tohd drop-off) but the thing is a SMOKING BLUR (THEN I saw the installed in the GUI, as most of the prior versions it was a script that had to be run manually.)
If I have time tomorrow I will re-fdisk and try a regular install. I tried to take a video, but I cannot aim my cell-cam with my mouth while manipulating the CTRL, ALT, and WinKey at the same time as the mouse...
CHECK IT OUT if you ever tinker.
A co-worker is going to finally build a Linux box because he saw how great it was OOTB!
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