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Blog post please

• exe34 2y ago
  I don't really blog, and I've forgotten all the juicy details at this point. It was an old thinkpad that just barely booted up windows ME and then couldn't do anything useful. VectorLinux was a really great match for it, I think they claimed to have fiddled with the kde libraries at the source level and ripped out a bunch of things to make it all snappier - I don't know to what extent that's true, but that crappy little laptop allowed me to run firefox, openoffice, skype, matlab and latex (not all at the same time - at most two) for my first year of uni.
  • written-beyond 2y ago
    Hearing about these esoteric Linux distros and their lore is always interesting. I'm surprised Skype used to be functional, post Microsoft acquisition I remember constantly fiddling with it to run consistently on fairly recent versions of Ubuntu on a 4th gen i5 latitude.
    • exe34 2y ago
      oh it was a pain in the gluteus maximus, this was before alsa worked properly, so it was using oss, and you could only have one application using the sound card. this means a random flash applet at the bottom of a page on Firefox could easily hold it and Skype would just not work.