Re: Linux on a small memory PC

From	The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.setup
Subject	Re: Linux on a small memory PC
Date	2022-07-07 12:00 +0100
Organization	A little, after lunch
Message-ID	<ta6ed6$c0he$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 07/07/2022 11:47, Marco Moock wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 07. Juli 2022, um 11:20:36 Uhr schrieb The Natural
> Philosopher:
> 
>> So, if you have a machine of that class or better, Mint Mate at least
>> will work pretty well.
> 
> If it doesn't support i386 anymore, don't use it, it is then insecure.

I don't think the application that this is intended for has any issues 
with that.

Support for 19.2 runs until 2023.

Really, you are not running nuclear power stations on a 16 (?) year old 
netbook

Its for standalone word processing mainly. will never see the internet 
probably

> First check if the CPU supports amd64 (Intel calls that EM64T/Intel-64).
> If so, almost any distribution will work.

Really, grandmothers and eggs, " i686 detected this distribution will 
not boot unless X-64 is detected) or something"

> The Atom with 1.6 GHz is likely the N270, no amd64 support.

If you bothered to look at the spec of the actual machine whose type 
number I quoted, you will see that this is exactly what is installed. No 
'likely' about it

> 
> I use Debian 11 on such machines, if you like you might you a much more
> lightweight window manager like mwm instead of Mate.
> Debian with mwm can run on a Pentium 3 600 MHz with 384 MiB RAM.
> 

I installed Mint  MATE because I can support it, the 32 bit is still 
supported, and it was to hand.

And as far as I am concerned (I still run windows XP in a VM for 
specialist apps) obsolete code that worked in its day will still work if 
your usage doesn't change.

And not to reiterate the thread we just fished with the light weight of 
the WM is completely irrelevant. When any browser or serious app will 
take ten times the RAM

-- 
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all 
private property.

Karl Marx

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Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-07 11:20 +0100
  Re: Linux on a small memory PC Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2022-07-07 12:47 +0200
    Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-07 12:00 +0100
    Re: Linux on a small memory PC Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2022-07-07 10:52 -0400
      Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-07 16:52 +0100
        Re: Linux on a small memory PC Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2022-07-07 11:50 -0500
          Re: Linux on a small memory PC Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2022-07-07 14:51 -0400
            Re: Linux on a small memory PC Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-07 22:07 +0100
              Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-08 09:50 +0100
                Re: Linux on a small memory PC Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-08 10:12 +0100
            Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-08 09:48 +0100
              Re: Linux on a small memory PC Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2022-07-08 14:04 -0400
                Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-08 19:35 +0100
                Re: Linux on a small memory PC Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2022-07-08 15:54 -0400
        Re: Linux on a small memory PC Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2022-07-08 10:27 +0100
          Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-18 23:59 -0400
  Re: Linux on a small memory PC Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2022-07-07 13:49 +0200
    Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-07 14:00 +0100
      Re: Linux on a small memory PC Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2022-07-07 11:12 -0400
      Re: Linux on a small memory PC not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2022-07-08 09:15 +1000
        Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-08 09:56 +0100
          Re: Linux on a small memory PC not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2022-07-09 09:41 +1000
            Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-09 01:30 -0400
              Re: Linux on a small memory PC Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2022-07-09 09:09 +0200
                Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-09 11:42 -0400
              Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-09 10:00 +0100
                Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-09 11:54 -0400
                Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-09 17:12 +0100
                Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-10 00:41 -0400
                Re: Linux on a small memory PC The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-10 10:58 +0100
      Re: Linux on a small memory PC Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2022-07-08 01:50 +0000
        Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-07 21:57 -0400
        Re: Linux on a small memory PC Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2022-07-08 09:50 +0200
        Re: Linux on a small memory PC doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2022-07-08 14:18 +0000
          Re: Linux on a small memory PC Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2022-07-08 23:05 +0000
  Re: Linux on a small memory PC "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> - 2022-07-07 21:15 -0400

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