How old is your computer - the sequel.

[Phill Whiteside]

You may also want to look at ToriOS[1] which is a respin of ubuntu.

Regards,

Phill.
1. http://torios.org/

On 9 December 2014 at 16:27, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:

> Den 2014-12-09 14:57, Barry Titterton skrev:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Thank you for all of your replies. I am very impressed by all of the
> > wonderful veteran machines that are still being used, and I thought that
> > I was doing well with a 9 year old machine!
> >
> > You may recall from my original post that the question was prompted by a
> > conversation at a local (Windows only) computer training course. I, as
> > you may expect, talked to the tutor and students about how Linux was
> > good on older machines. The tutor then mentioned that they had three old
> > laptops that they no longer used, and that I was welcome to try putting
> > Linux on them. Two of the computers are old XP machines (Dell Latitude
> > D505, Pentium M with 1 Gb RAM) that were donated by the local Teesdale
> > council. The CPUs on these are non-pae so I am using Lubuntu with the
> > 'forcepae' option on install. I have managed to get one working and am
> > going back after New Year to do the second. The third machine is a much
> > newer Win 7 Toshiba Satellite Pro (spec unknown), donated by BT, that
> > never worked properly and was quickly retired to the store cupboard. I
> > am unsure whether to use Mint 17 with cinnamon on this machine, or full
> > Ubunutu as Unity may be too much these very inexperienced (and nervous)
> > students. I don't want to confuse them by doing too much, too quickly.
> > Does anyone know if these desktop environments will work together if
> > installed on the same machine as alternatives? I have, in the past,
> > tried XFCE and LXDE on the same machine and it did not work well.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Barry T
> >
>
> I'm glad to read that you succeeded with the first Dell Latitude :-)
>
> I have good experience with Toshiba laptops and linux. If the hard disk
> drive is big enough (and I think it is), you can easily make a
> multi-boot system with standard Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, maybe even
> Kubuntu side by side with Linux Mint. For testing purposes you can
> allocate a common swap partition of 2 GB, and divide the rest of the
> drive into similar sized partitions, where you install the Ubuntu
> flavour systems.
>
> First play around with it yourself to check that it is good enough for
> you to show, then let the other guys try and find what they like.
>
> -o-
>
> If there is not space enough for several systems, it is possible to
> install the various desktop environments (only) or the whole flavours on
> top of each other.
>
> sudo apt-get install lxde  # installs (adds) only the desktop environment
>
> sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop  # installs (adds) all of Lubuntu
>
> sudo apt-get install xfce4  #installs (adds) only the desktop environment
>
> sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop  # installs (adds) all of Xubuntu
>
> This will make a bloated system, but it works. I have done it and it
> works for me, and can be recommended [at least] for testing. You select
> the desktop environment at the login screen.
>
> Good luck :-)
> Nio
>
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