Dropped on Debris Linux. Pops along pretty good now (no more memory swapping). Firefox is fast, email, plays music, can't get a DVD to play in gxine though (sound but no video). Wireless PC card worked immediately. Quite surprised with that. Linux has come a long way over the years!
From: Otto Gvert [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 8:01 AM To: Chad Bailey Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Laptop $50 Came across this distro debris. ITs an based on Ubuntu 8.04 and runs very nicely on aEmachine T1090 900 mhz Celeron CPU, 128 mb RAM and a 30 GB HDD, I was impressed. Peppermint OS is another possibility for an older machine. --- On Mon, 5/17/10, Chad Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: From: Chad Bailey <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Laptop $50 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Date: Monday, May 17, 2010, 11:59 PM ubuntu on 256mb of ram? no question why it's slow now lol. really though, that computer wouldn't be half bad if it was running a stripped down low memory OS/window manager. just switching from like gnome/kde to xfce can make an amazing difference. i don't have a use myself, but know a guy who's in the market for something like this, i'll let him know. thanks for your post :D On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Mike Rathburn <[email protected]> wrote: > Have an old Dell Latitude C600 laptop with latest Ubuntu 10.04 desktop > installed. It's slower than Christmas, but it all works. I have no use for > it. $50 bucks for a LUGger. > > PIII 1ghz > 256Mb RAM (expandable to 512) > 20G HD > DVD ROM > Battery lasts about 15 min > Has serial, parallel, USB, PS2, PCMCIA, ethernet, modem, S-Video, VGA > Includes Linksys wireless G PC card >
