11.04 on a ten year old Dell laptop?

[sdavmor]

On 10/21/2011 10:49 AM, Preston Hagar wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jimt<jptran at vtidea.net>  wrote:
>>
>> I had gotten ubuntu 11.04 up and running.   It is running the
>> older GNOME windowing system.  About 2 weeks ago, following an
>> update/reboot ... The reboot hung on "checking battery status".
>> I am competent with programming and software design, but very new
>> to Linux/Ubuntu.  This 'hanging' on one issue or another plagued
>> my installing process.
>>
>> If you have seen/have a workaround .....please pass it along.
>> Thanks. Jimt ps- I also have a bootable CD of the 10.10 --- it
>> apparently runs OK. thanks in advance
>>
>
> Depends on the model, but it may be easier to use an older version
> (unless you really need the latest and greatest).  I had a Dell
> Inspirion 1100 from about 2004 and tried to put 11.04 on it.  The
> video doesn't work right, the sound doesn't work right and there
> were other general issues.  I started going through endless
> how-tos, fixes, etc and although I am sure it would have eventually
> worked, it was getting tedious.  I took a Hardy 8.04 CD I had
> still, installed it, audio worked, video worked, everything worked
> right out of the box, no extra configuration needed.  I am sure
> there are lots of reasons to not use an old release (8.04 was at
> least an LTS, so it shouldn't be too out of date security wise),
> but sometimes with old hardware, it may be the easiest way to go.
>
> Preston

Xubuntu or Lubuntu should also work well. I have a 10 and an 11 year
old laptop. Both are PIII processors. One with 512MB and one with 1GB
of PC133 memory. I'm running Xubuntu 10.10 on both of them. Took a
little bit to get them going with wireless connectivity, but other
than that they came up clean and run fine. Haven't yet thought about
upgrading them to 11.10. Maybe next month.
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