I have just acquired an old Toshiba laptop. Its running a Celeron 600Mhz, 64Mb RAM and a 6Gb HDD. Which linux would be a good choice for this old lappy.
I have just acquired an old Toshiba laptop. Its running a Celeron 600Mhz, 64Mb RAM and a 6Gb HDD. Which linux would be a good choice for this old lappy.
Main Rig: i2600k@4.3Ghz/ASUS P8P67 PRO/MSi GTX580/16GB Mushkin/HAF X/Noctua NH-D14
Probably none with a Gui - and with that amount of RAM it will be slow even in console mode.
Best choices might be dam small Linux or Puppy Linux.
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My broadband speed - 750 Meganibbles/minute
Yeah I the RAM is limiting you there, try get another 64mb stick and as peterb said go with a small resource Linux like puppy
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I have just ordered a 128Mb stick off Ebay as I found out the max memory for the system is 192Mb. This should help me out alot. I like the look of puppy so I am going to give that a try, I have just installed it onto a USB stick and will try it out soon.
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192 Mbytes will just about let you run a Gui - you should set about 512Mb for swap space and you may get adequate performance - don't expect anything startling though - the Gui - (at least Gnome and KDE) will be a resource hog. Some of the other lighter weight Guis might be better.
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puppy linux
No-one want to mention Windows 2000?
I agree with something like Xubuntu, but W2k (if you have it available) with suitable firewalls etc is still a good OS. Just another thought / option.
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System as shown, plus: Microsoft Wireless mobile 4000 mouse and Logitech Illuminated keyboard.
Sennheiser RS160 wireless headphones. Creative Gigaworks T40 SII. My wife. My Hexus Trust
I do not have Win2k available to me.
I have installed Puppy v4 and its running quite nicely, even my usb Dlink G122 wifi is working although Seamonkey will not load any pages which is odd.
Main Rig: i2600k@4.3Ghz/ASUS P8P67 PRO/MSi GTX580/16GB Mushkin/HAF X/Noctua NH-D14
That's good. I'm becoming a Linux advocate, but just wanted to consider other ideas.
Have never tried Puppy myself though, but have had success with Xubuntu on a similar setup (and 192MB RAM).
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System as shown, plus: Microsoft Wireless mobile 4000 mouse and Logitech Illuminated keyboard.
Sennheiser RS160 wireless headphones. Creative Gigaworks T40 SII. My wife. My Hexus Trust
I think that I may have to update the drivers for the wifi to work, I have no idea how to do this.
Main Rig: i2600k@4.3Ghz/ASUS P8P67 PRO/MSi GTX580/16GB Mushkin/HAF X/Noctua NH-D14
Are there drivers available for Puppy Linux (or any Linux for that matter?).
Looking at Dlink's page for the G122 and then here there is version 3.30 available for windows.
I then personally use NDISwrapper for my Ubuntu box, with my Netgear card and found it to be 100% reliable once you get it installed.
I don't know about Dlink, but netgear dont give you the files easily. You need a working Windows installation, then install the .exe, and then go into windows / system 32 / drivers etc to find them and copy them into Linux. Very frustrating, plus you need a working Windows environment to do it.
Anyone else any quicker / easier solution?
Plus i'm afraid i do not know how to install NDISwrapper in Puppy.
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System as shown, plus: Microsoft Wireless mobile 4000 mouse and Logitech Illuminated keyboard.
Sennheiser RS160 wireless headphones. Creative Gigaworks T40 SII. My wife. My Hexus Trust
And as if by magic....
Found this on Digg today.
Who'd have thought they'd have done something this useful?
https://launchpad.net/auto-ndiswrapprer
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System as shown, plus: Microsoft Wireless mobile 4000 mouse and Logitech Illuminated keyboard.
Sennheiser RS160 wireless headphones. Creative Gigaworks T40 SII. My wife. My Hexus Trust
I cannot get a wifi connection to my router, I get a message stating that the WPA connection did not work, why is this? I am using a static IP address.
Main Rig: i2600k@4.3Ghz/ASUS P8P67 PRO/MSi GTX580/16GB Mushkin/HAF X/Noctua NH-D14
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