linux laptop...
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so i thought id try to set an old one up and see how it compares ... after 5 re-installs to get things how i want (im not good enuff with linux yet to go in and hack the conf files) i must say its looking good altho windows it sure isnt i'll report as it progresses :)
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so i thought id try to set an old one up and see how it compares ... after 5 re-installs to get things how i want (im not good enuff with linux yet to go in and hack the conf files) i must say its looking good altho windows it sure isnt i'll report as it progresses :)
Which "Flavour" of Linux are you running, and just how "old" is the laptop.. (details please) ~Mike Stanbrook
modified on Saturday, January 22, 2011 10:28 AM
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so i thought id try to set an old one up and see how it compares ... after 5 re-installs to get things how i want (im not good enuff with linux yet to go in and hack the conf files) i must say its looking good altho windows it sure isnt i'll report as it progresses :)
poor laptop :rose:
Tomáš Petříček
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poor laptop :rose:
Tomáš Petříček
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I would never install this thing on my old laptop. :laugh: (it is something like this[^], but it has two floppy drives instead of FDD and HDD)
Tomáš Petříček
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I would never install this thing on my old laptop. :laugh: (it is something like this[^], but it has two floppy drives instead of FDD and HDD)
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Which "Flavour" of Linux are you running, and just how "old" is the laptop.. (details please) ~Mike Stanbrook
modified on Saturday, January 22, 2011 10:28 AM
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Try gentoo, stage 3. Also for the desktop you could use FVWM, or Fluxbox. -Steven Hicks
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l a u r e n wrote: its a p2 @ 266MHz with 160mb ram & 4gb hdd Yeah, multiply that by 10 across the board, and you'd have a machine that could run XP. :-D Sometimes I feel like I'm a USB printer in a parallel universe.
XP (Home edt.) runs "quite well" on 200 MHz. Imagine that. With fancy services turn off, it runs better then Win2K on same box. Mike M WinInsider.com - News for Microsoftonians
