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| atilla... |
 Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 2:07 pm |
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I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this into a
web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
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| ray... |
| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 2:33 pm |
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On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:07:39 +0200, atilla wrote:
Quote: I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this
into a web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
Atilla
A couple of years ago I installed Elive on a p160 with 64mb ram. It was
not blindingly fast, but it was decent. I'd suggest a little more memory
- if you have a computer recycler or such nearby, give them a try. BTW -
that ain't 'ancient' - I have an ancient laptop - 4.88mhz 8086 with 640K
ram - two floppies, no hard drive. It still loads and runs drdos. |
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| jellybean stonerfish... |
| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 2:57 pm |
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On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:07:39 +0200, atilla wrote:
Quote: I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this
into a web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
Atilla
I have an old toshiba 315cdt. Years ago I couldn't get any distro I
tried, to run. I remember getting redhat or debian to finally install.
It was so slow, it was useless. Some distro's I tried wouldn't even boot
the install cd. Anyway, I ended up rolling my own, with a minimal
x-server, and just the minimum applications and libraries I needed. It
can function as a browser (no flash or video), and, the small OS space
needed, leaves room to use this computer as a mobile picture frame.
Anyway, building your own may be an option to look into. How much fun do
you want to have, with this project? |
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| Sarah Newman... |
| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:00 pm |
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On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:07:39 +0200, atilla wrote:
Quote: I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this
into a web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
Atilla
That sounds like a really old system 
I suggest you try it with a lightweight window manager like Fluxbox or
Openbox. IMHO Window Maker is also a good choice on systems without much
RAM and speed. As distribution I would use Debian, Damn Small or one of
those for more experienced users like Gentoo, Arch or LFS.
Sarah
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Ubuntu Jaunty (i686) // GNU/Linux 2.6.28-14-generic
Sent on 03/08/2009 at 12:54 AM |
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| philo... |
| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 6:00 pm |
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Sarah Newman wrote:
Quote: On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:07:39 +0200, atilla wrote:
I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this
into a web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
Atilla
That sounds like a really old system
I suggest you try it with a lightweight window manager like Fluxbox or
Openbox. IMHO Window Maker is also a good choice on systems without much
RAM and speed. As distribution I would use Debian, Damn Small or one of
those for more experienced users like Gentoo, Arch or LFS.
Sarah
Damn Small Linux is a small download and should work fine on that machine
otherwise Puppy Linux |
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| atec 7 7... |
| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 6:23 pm |
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atilla wrote:
Quote: I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this into a
web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
Atilla
something tiny , I expect more ram would assist of course so do you have
a model number ? |
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| root... |
| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:32 pm |
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atilla <atilla at (no spam) noneofyourbusiness.org> wrote:
Quote: I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this into a
web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
Atilla
I have Slackware running on a similar old Thinkpad. |
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| Phil..c... |
| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 12:11 am |
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atilla wrote:
Quote: I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this into a
web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
Atilla
Just found out about tiny core from a puppy thread
see
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Remastering
have not tried it yet But it sure looks interesting
However Happy with Puppy on an ANCIENT
Pentium 2 with 64 megs of ram
HTH |
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| El Che... |
| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:25 am |
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atilla wrote:
Quote: I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this into a
web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
Could't you just upgrade RAM and stick with xfce?. I think RAM it's pretty
cheap nowadays.
As an alternative, you could try LXDE as your DE and a light browser such as
Arora.
Both are found in Debian (I suggest "Testing" version for it has newer
versions of software, compared to Stable).
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Ernest Rutherford.
"All science is either physics AND stamp collecting".
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| Alister... |
| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:15 pm |
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On 08/02/2009 09:07 PM, atilla wrote:
Quote: I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this into a
web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
Atilla
I think you will need to increases memory to get anything running X to work
if all you want is a web browser try one of the ultra compact distro's
such as Puppy or DSL |
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| Darrell Stec... |
| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:55 pm |
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atilla inscribed forevermore utilizing silicon chips::
Quote: I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this into
a web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
Atilla
I am using Felicia Mint on a similar system. It uses XFCE and runs a tad
slow but certainly not hair pulling slow. It is set up as one of the
standard Linuxes.
I installed Puppy Teen on it and it worked quite fast, far faster than the
Linux Mint, but I did not like the way it set up its folders nor security.
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| Van Chocstraw... |
| Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:49 pm |
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atilla wrote:
Quote: I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this into a
web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
Atilla
If you want to get rid of your cat, tie it to the notebook and throw in
in the river. |
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| Van Chocstraw... |
| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:43 am |
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Darrell Stec wrote:
Quote: atilla inscribed forevermore utilizing silicon chips::
I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this into
a web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
Atilla
I am using Felicia Mint on a similar system. It uses XFCE and runs a tad
slow but certainly not hair pulling slow. It is set up as one of the
standard Linuxes.
I installed Puppy Teen on it and it worked quite fast, far faster than the
Linux Mint, but I did not like the way it set up its folders nor security.
FVWM would work better or even ICEWM |
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| JBJ... |
| Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:26 pm |
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"atilla" <atilla at (no spam) noneofyourbusiness.org> skrev i meddelelsen
news:h54s4g$4lf$1 at (no spam) news.eternal-september.org...
Quote: I have a notebook with some 300Mhz processor(Some weird x86, Toshiba I
guess) with 64 MB ram and not much else. What can be dine with such a
machine? Even XFCE is too heavy on RAM. I will be happy to turn this into
a
web surfing PC at home. What distro/desktop do you suggest?
Atilla
Hello, first you should get some more ram in it, that will help on the
speed so I suggest you take a visit to this place and find your model:
http://www.pchub.com/uph/brand/-5/Toshiba-part-spare.html
I bought internal cd-rom drive from them and its working just fine:) I'm
running Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop on this one
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:770Z
upgraded to 324MB ram, 40GB Hdd, SMC - SMCWUSB-G EU (Works with WPA and
WPA2 Personal - I have not tested other) Wifi USB card. And it works just
fine winth Ubuntu, except from some small "hickups" I can live with.
I have made this thread in order to help others finding good USB Wireless
HW:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1230628
If you cant get Ubuntu to work then try Puppy Linux
http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads/official-releases/latest-production-release
Its a nice distro:) But if you want to run wifi then make sure your card is
supported!
I you dont have internal cd-rom drive, then dont dispear because puppy has
a bootfloppy called WakePuppy that will wake up Puppy cd from extermal USB
Cd-rom drive. Actually in all the the linux distro's I tried its the only
one with this feature.
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Mvh / with kind regards
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| Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:05 pm |
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You should try tiny core linux.
tinycorelinux.com
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