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| Thread ID: 99625 | 2009-05-08 23:27:00 | Linux recommendations....again. | Metla (12) | Press F1 |
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| 772317 | 2009-05-08 23:27:00 | Greetings. Have acquired a Celeron 600 running 128mb of ram, Going to set it up to do nothing but run a photo slideshow, Approx 1200 photos. Can anyone recommend a distro that will run on that hardware without killing it, and comes with some useful software for displaying photo's? |
Metla (12) | ||
| 772318 | 2009-05-09 00:03:00 | Maybe this, www.puppylinux.org dont know if it has a slideshow capability, says something about a image editor on the webpage. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 772319 | 2009-05-09 04:28:00 | www.adamfranco.com www.aguntherphotography.com Or just convert pics to a video file and add affects on any software you want then play it on dsl/puppy linux Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 772320 | 2009-05-09 05:48:00 | Puppy Linux is a nice little package, seems to do the job. But god damn I need to find a way to block these ads, Damn atrocious. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 772321 | 2009-05-09 10:54:00 | Almost any distribution that has included a light GUI other than GNOME or KDE will do fine I would think. Both the normal GUIs need a minimum of at the very least 256Mbytes of RAM. | johnd (85) | ||
| 772322 | 2009-05-09 11:18:00 | Mythbuntu The recommended specs are higher than what you have, but thats mainly for encoding of TV etc. However it does have a picture gallery which will enable to throw all your photos on and run them as a slideshow I use this at home for my media centre, admittedly I don't have a picture gallery, but I just double checked and it should do what you require. Easy to setup with an MCE remote too :) May be a bit much, but worth a look. If youre ever up this way, drop in and check it out Uses XFCE as default desktop (one of the lighter desktops) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 772323 | 2009-05-09 12:59:00 | The issue so far is the hardware and the photo's, Even pointing the Photo displaying software at 120 photo causes everything to stall massively, and I might have thousands of photos, That 120 was just the contents of one days taking pics. I assume its because the pics are something stupid like 4800x4400, Massive. The options are to make a new copy of every single photo at a much smaller size, or source a better computer for the job. Been a long time since I have tried to do any sort of project on such an under powered PC.So far I hate it. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 772324 | 2009-05-09 22:37:00 | Need some more SD-RAM? Gimme a PM | Myth (110) | ||
| 772325 | 2009-05-10 00:21:00 | RAM won't be an issue on a machine of that spec, rather CPU grunt needed to render and on-the-fly downsample / resize the pix for on-screen displaying. I haven't used Puppy, but can vouch for DSL (Damn Small Linux), or Voyage Linux. Both are debian based, and dead-simple to get running (Esp DSL). From there I guess it's just a matter of finding a decent slideshow app.. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 772326 | 2009-05-10 01:04:00 | You could try feh. It's a very basic command line application for displaying images and can show a slideshow. I've only used it for setting the desktop background when using a basic window manager like OpenBox or Awesome instead of a full desktop environment like Gnome. It appears to work alright, I used a command like "feh -FzZp -D 5 *.jpg" to show a slideshow of all jpg images in the current directory with a delay of 5 seconds. It doesn't have any transition effects however. Mirage (mirageiv.berlios.de/) is another option that might be a bit more advanced but still lightweight. Also GImageView (http:) |
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