I have unearthed an old Toshiba Satellite S300CDS/2.1GB which appears to
be in working order. It has Windows 2000 installed but needs a password
which nobody knows. It seems to me to be a good idea to try to install a
version of Ubuntu and would like to know what you would suggest.
Thanks
On 6 September 2014 18:01, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote:
I have unearthed an old Toshiba Satellite S300CDS/2.1GB which appears to be
in working order. It has Windows 2000 installed but needs a password which
nobody knows. It seems to me to be a good idea to try to install a
On 06/09/14 17:01, Norman Silverstone wrote:
I have unearthed an old Toshiba Satellite S300CDS/2.1GB... It seems
to me to be a good idea to try to install a version of Ubuntu and
would like to know what you would suggest.
Hi Norman
There's an article in issue 88 of Full Circle magazine (page
On 6 September 2014 18:30, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Hi Norman
There's an article in issue 88 of Full Circle magazine (page 15) about
creating a minimal Ubuntu desktop. Might be worth a look:
http://fullcirclemagazine.org
Windows XP shipped to OEMs in 2001 and the public in
On 6 September 2014 17:28, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
For such an old PC (10y old), any modern Linux distro will really
struggle. About the only *buntu with even a chance is LXLE:
http://lxle.net/
Go with the 12.04 version.
But it would be better suited to Puppy Linux or
On 6 September 2014 18:36, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote:
Even their Xfce edition works nicely on an EeePC
901.
Which is about 50x more powerful than this machine, which came with
about 32MB of RAM and a 75MHz CPU or something like that.
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On 6 September 2014 17:44, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
Which is about 50x more powerful than this machine, which came with
about 32MB of RAM and a 75MHz CPU or something like that.
Yeah, I realised that after I'd posted...
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On 06/09/14 17:35, Liam Proven wrote:
On 6 September 2014 18:30, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Hi Norman
There's an article in issue 88 of Full Circle magazine (page 15) about
creating a minimal Ubuntu desktop. Might be worth a look:
http://fullcirclemagazine.org
Windows XP
Thank you all for responding to my request and, from what I have read,
it seems that this machine will not run any reasonably current OS. I
have also unearthed a lot of old games which probably ran on DOS from
3.5in floppies. I wonder if I can find an old DOs disk, that would be
fun and
There is a free DOS called, predictably FreeDOS (http://freedos.org), which
is available in floppy and CD images.
s/
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On 6 September 2014 19:54, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
There is a free DOS called, predictably FreeDOS (http://freedos.org), which
is available in floppy and CD images.
In case anyone else thinks the site is down, the correct address
appears to, unhelpfully, be
On 6 September 2014 20:56, Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 September 2014 19:54, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
There is a free DOS called, predictably FreeDOS (http://freedos.org),
which
is available in floppy and CD images.
In case anyone else thinks the site is
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