11-07-2011
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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LINUX(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual LINUX(4)
NAME
linux -- Linux ABI support
SYNOPSIS
To compile support for this ABI into an i386 kernel place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
options COMPAT_LINUX
for an amd64 kernel use:
options COMPAT_LINUX32
Alternatively, to load the ABI as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
linux_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The linux module provides limited Linux ABI (application binary interface) compatibility for userland applications. The module provides the
following significant facilities:
o An image activator for correctly branded elf(5) executable images
o Special signal handling for activated images
o Linux to native system call translation
It is important to note that the Linux ABI support it not provided through an emulator. Rather, a true (albeit limited) ABI implementation
is provided.
The following sysctl(8) tunable variables are available:
compat.linux.osname Linux kernel operating system name.
compat.linux.osrelease Linux kernel operating system release. Changing this to something else is discouraged on non-development systems,
because it may change the way Linux programs work. Recent versions of GNU libc are known to use different syscalls
depending on the value of this sysctl.
compat.linux.oss_version Linux Open Sound System version.
The linux module can be linked into the kernel statically with the COMPAT_LINUX kernel configuration option or loaded as required. The fol-
lowing command will load the module if it is neither linked into the kernel nor already loaded as a module:
if ! kldstat -v | grep -E 'linux(aout|elf)' > /dev/null; then
kldload linux > /dev/null 2>&1
fi
Note that dynamically linked Linux executables will require a suitable environment in /compat/linux. Specifically, the Linux run-time
linker's hints files should be correctly initialized. For this reason, it is common to execute the following commands to prepare the system
to correctly run Linux executables:
if [ -x /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig ]; then
/compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig -r /compat/linux
fi
For information on loading the linux kernel loadable module automatically on system startup, see rc.conf(5). This information applies
regardless of whether the linux module is statically linked into the kernel or loaded as a module.
FILES
/compat/linux minimal Linux run-time environment
/compat/linux/proc limited Linux process file system
/compat/linux/sys limited Linux system file system
SEE ALSO
brandelf(1), elf(5), linprocfs(5), linsysfs(5)
HISTORY
Linux ABI support first appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.
BSD February 8, 2010 BSD