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| From | Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.hardware |
| Subject | Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? |
| Date | 2019-11-15 11:52 +0000 |
| Organization | /etc/news/organization |
| Message-ID | <slrnqst4bh.2rb.jj@iridium.wf32df> (permalink) |
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On 2019-11-14, Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> wrote:
> On 2019-11-14, TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> wrote:
>> Mine is older, from around 2002. I found it at a church sale, priced at
>> $10, completely dead, with no power supply to use to check it out. A
>> sensible person would have turned and walked away, but I bought it for
>> the challenge.
>> ...
>
> Cool, I always love reviving old hardware. I also have an old Dell 8500
> (an early wide-screen model) that hails from 2003, equipped with a
> Pentium-4M and 1.25GB memory. It's running an old, no longer supported
> version of Ubuntu. I think it should be able to run Lubuntu 18.04 like my
> "newer" one, will have to try it. No SSD though, it has the old-style
> parallel ATA drive interface. So it's slow, but looks like memory will
> be adequate for Lubuntu and Firefox.
Ok I have a 2005 IBM thinkpad Laptop 0.75GB ram 40G laptop with Devuan
ASCII loaded on... after a boot and login with just 2 xterms running...
jj@actinium:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 703192 81664 419848 1296 201680 515452
Swap: 1951892 0 1951892
with libreoffice open with a 35 slide presentation loaded and firefox
running with just a single google page open ....
jj@actinium:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 703192 281232 59316 13096 362644 303868
Swap: 1951892 200 1951692
with as above but firefox having 2 sales sites, 2 forums, 1 weather, and 1
streetmap site open ...
jj@actinium:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 703192 468996 65036 22992 169160 107380
Swap: 1951892 37336 1914556
It's usable for simple work. I could really try and upgrade the ram I
think. I use it for lugging around when I do presentations, or for showing
pictures etc. Battery only lasts an hour though.
Jim
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Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? MaxTheFast <gipsy.shadow.84@gmail.com> - 2019-11-10 08:37 -0800
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2019-11-10 18:26 +0100
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-11-10 18:16 +0000
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-11-10 20:25 +0100
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-11-10 18:24 -0500
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2019-11-10 19:43 -0500
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? MaxThe Fast <gipsy.shadow.84@gmail.com> - 2019-11-11 07:27 -0800
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? Charlie+ <charlie@xxx.net> - 2019-11-12 07:36 +0000
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-12 10:38 +0100
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-11-12 12:15 +0100
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-12 12:39 +0100
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? MaxTheFast <gipsy.shadow.84@gmail.com> - 2019-11-12 04:45 -0800
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-11-12 17:55 +0000
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2019-11-14 13:03 -0500
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-11-14 22:02 +0000
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? MaxTheFast <gipsy.shadow.84@gmail.com> - 2019-11-14 16:05 -0800
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2019-11-15 12:12 -0500
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2019-11-15 11:52 +0000
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2019-11-13 11:18 -0500
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-11-13 18:52 +0000
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-11-11 14:27 +0100
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-11-11 16:29 +0000
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-11-11 23:02 +0100
Re: Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible? Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-11-11 23:22 +0000
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