How old is your computer - the sequel.

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On 12/09/2014 10:34 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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