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| From | Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> |
|---|---|
| Organization | Deepwoods Software |
| Subject | Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old? 2008 MacBook Pro? |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.os.linux.help, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.questions, comp.os.linux.setup |
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| Date | 2022-06-15 18:48 -0500 |
Cross-posted to 5 groups.
At Wed, 15 Jun 2022 23:16:33 -0000 (UTC) Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> wrote:
>
> On 2022-06-15, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have a 14 years old old MacBook Pro (15" A1260 model, unibody; 2.4 Ghz
> > Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB (667 MHz) of DDR2 SDRAM, 200 GB HDD, NVIDIA
> > GeForce 8600M GT (256 MB of VRAM), & Mac OS X (El Capitan v10.11.6))
> > from early 2008. Its software are too old, unsupported, and too slow.
> >
> > I'm thinking about replacing them with Linux, but which one would be
> > suitable for it? I still want basic GUI like web browsing. I remember
> > trying doing the same for an old PowerBook G4, but I couldn't get its
> > wifi to work with various Linux installations. I hope this won't happen
> > again with it.
>
> I'm writing this on a 2004-vintage Acer laptop of similar specifications,
> a Centrino-based system with 2GB memory and an old OCZ "Vertex" 30GB
> SSD I had laying around. I'm running Lubuntu 18.04 on it and performance
> is not bad. I expect though if I had left the original slow mechanical
> drive in this thing it would be a lot more sluggish.
>
> It can even play youtube videos, albeit in SD. The problem is that 18.04
> was the last version to support 32-bit CPUs. I think your Core 2 Duo is
> 64-bit internally but with a 32-bit data bus. It can run 64-bit software
> but with reduced performance compared to a full 64-bit CPU.
I think even newer versions support 32-bit CPUs, but 16.04 is the last version
with a 32-bit installer. One can install 16.04, and then do do-release-upgrade
to get to the more recent releases -- do-release-upgrade will go from 16.04 to
18.04, then doing it again will go to 20.04, then again to 22.04, and in a
couple of years, you should be able to go to 24.04...
If it can run 64-bit software it is in fact a 64-bit CPU. I don't think the
OS is going to care about the size of the *physical* data bus, so long as the
instruction set is 64-bit.
>
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