Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?
Brian Had a lot of trouble putting Puppy on it, had to use an old build as the latest would not go on. That indicates a defect in Puppy not the laptop. I doubt you would have had this trouble with Ubuntu 10.04 and with 512mb it would have run fine. Mark Elkins -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?
On 08/04/11 14:12, Brian R Masterman wrote: Thanks for the advise. The Toshiba Satellite 1000 has a limited memory of 512MB due to the old style DIMMs. I wanted to use Audacity as it allows editing out bits of the recordings and saving as mp3. Had a lot of trouble putting Puppy on it, had to use an old build as the latest would not go on. DSL was a right pain to install. In the end, I decided to flog the laptop to someone who only wanted an Internet browser. (The factory build disks gave MS XP Home - no updates). Linux lost this round. Brian M. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue I'm suprised you had trouble with Puppy. The min RAM is 128MB http://puppylinux.org/wikka/MinReq If you put XP on it, why didn't you install Audacity on that? http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ -- -- Discover Linux - Open Source Solutions to Business and Schools http://discoverlinux.co.uk -- -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?
On 08/04/11 14:12, Brian R Masterman wrote: Thanks for the advise. The Toshiba Satellite 1000 has a limited memory of 512MB due to the old style DIMMs. I wanted to use Audacity as it allows editing out bits of the recordings and saving as mp3. Had a lot of trouble putting Puppy on it, had to use an old build as the latest would not go on. DSL was a right pain to install. In the end, I decided to flog the laptop to someone who only wanted an Internet browser. (The factory build disks gave MS XP Home - no updates). Linux lost this round. Brian M. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue I'm surprised you had trouble with Puppy. The min RAM is 128MB http://puppylinux.org/wikka/MinReq If you put XP on it, why didn't you install Audacity on that? http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ -- -- Discover Linux - Open Source Solutions to Business and Schools http://discoverlinux.co.uk -- -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
