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MadDuk
| #1 posted December 21, 2008 at 1:51pm (EST)
edited January 14, 2009 at 7:24pm (EST) |
Puppy Linux!
Man I have been wondering what to do with this old laptop. A Presario 1675 /w AMD K6-2 500mhz and 192MB memory. It had Win98 on it but there are a lot of things that have fallen out of service with this old OS. So I have been trying a few distros out that are supposed to run on low-end machines. Xubuntu, DSL, and Slackware didn't work out. Xubuntu was slower than crap even when running BlackBox. DSL couldn't ever find my wireless card and Slackware kept telling me to install the wrong Kernel for my CPU.
So then I try Puppy Linux, and from what I have seen so far I am impressed. The wireless config was easy and the setup and install to the HD was easy to follow. And even as few resources as it uses it still looks good on the desktop and is faster than Win98. I am still getting used to some of the way things work with it but as far as I can see it is definitely staying on the drive.
So if you have a low end machine I would recommend Puppy, but of course as with Linux results may vary. |
G_Prime
  
 
| | #2 posted December 21, 2008 at 5:34pm (EST) |
Looks interesting....thanks! |
sonofwang
| | #3 posted December 21, 2008 at 5:47pm (EST) |
Puppy is my favorite lightweight distro, though I never actually did any thing useful with it. |
MadDuk
| | #4 posted December 21, 2008 at 7:06pm (EST) |
There really isn't much use for some of this old stuff. I found this laptop (using to type this) in the garbage behind a computer store. Hard to imagine at one time someone paid about $1500 dollars for it. Now I can use it around the house for surfing and watching scores. It is really laggy playing flash movies, I guess I could mess around with the Xserver at some point. |
sonofwang
| | #5 posted December 21, 2008 at 10:58pm (EST) |
No it definitely is cool. a lot of old hardware is still really useful. I'd like to gt around to setting up a home server with some older stuff I have laying around. Eventually I'll get a couple sata pci cards and set up a home server with Freenas. |
MadDuk
| | #6 posted January 14, 2009 at 7:38pm (EST) |
Still doing good...
I would like to tweak the xserver some, video playback is terrible. Even if I download the video and play it with Gxine, it is very choppy. |
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