How old is your computer - the sequel.

Paul Sutton zleap at zleap.net
Tue Dec 9 19:34:50 UTC 2014


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+1

Paul

On 09/12/14 16:37, Israel wrote:
> +1 :) 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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