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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Help me choose an OS for my old intel 845 board Post 302571474 by Mooches on Monday 7th of November 2011 12:22:20 PM

11-07-2011

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Help me choose an OS for my old intel 845 board

I have a pc with intel 845GLLY board with integrated i845g graphics, 768mb ram, and 1.7ghz p4. I've tried some linux distros before, ubuntu and linux mint and fedora, and older versions of ubuntu, but none of them work! They keep crashing. I searched for answers online and seems that linux kernels are incompatible with the 845g graphics, so no linux distro is likely to run. So I need help finding an open-source OS to run on this system. There seem to be lots of operating systems, unix, beos.. but I'm not sure if these are compatible. I want an OS that runs very smoothly on this older hardware with low-memory/cpu footprint and gives good performance for general use - internet browsing, music, word processing and have a feature to control the system with speech recognition if possible. A nice GUI like Win XP would be nice, I don't want any fancy glass and transparency effects which most likely wouldn't run on these graphics either. Anyone can help? (Note: I'm currently running XP on this system, which works ok for the most part albeit a little sluggish when running new versions of web browsers. But I'm looking for a high-performance open source OS.)

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exaccel(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual						  exaccel(3alleg4)

NAME

       exaccel - Using offscreen video memory to store source graphics for VBE/AF. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <allegro.h>

       Example exaccel

DESCRIPTION

       This  program  demonstrates  how  to use an offscreen part of the video memory to store source graphics for a hardware accelerated graphics
       driver. The example loads the `mysha.pcx' file and then blits it several times on the screen. Depending on whether you  have  enough  video
       memory and Allegro supports the hardware acceleration features of your card, your success running this example may be none at all, sluggish
       performance due to software emulation, or flicker free smooth hardware accelerated animation.

SEE ALSO

       BITMAP(3alleg4),   END_OF_MAIN(3alleg4),   PALETTE(3alleg4),   SCREEN_H(3alleg4),   SCREEN_W(3alleg4),	 acquire_bitmap(3alleg4),    alle-
       gro_error(3alleg4),  allegro_init(3alleg4),  allegro_message(3alleg4),  blit(3alleg4), clear_bitmap(3alleg4), create_video_bitmap(3alleg4),
       destroy_bitmap(3alleg4), font(3alleg4), gfx_capabilities(3alleg4), install_keyboard(3alleg4), install_timer(3alleg4),  keypressed(3alleg4),
       load_bitmap(3alleg4),   readkey(3alleg4),   release_bitmap(3alleg4),   replace_filename(3alleg4),  screen(3alleg4),  set_gfx_mode(3alleg4),
       set_palette(3alleg4), show_video_bitmap(3alleg4), textout_ex(3alleg4), textprintf_ex(3alleg4)

Allegro 							   version 4.4.2						  exaccel(3alleg4)