2014-03-08 14:18, JM skrev: > On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 13:38:24 +0100 > Nio Wiklund <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> See this link >> >> http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/9w/ >> >> >> 1. What computer will run at all, will be able to do some 'real work', >> etc? It might be worth the effort just for the sake of knowledge. > > Hi, > > I can tell about a recent experience with a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo-EL N243S9 > laptop, known as one of the AMILO EL 6800 at the > http://support.ts.fujitsu.com/index.asp > place. > > I came with 256 MB ram and a Celeron 2Ghz. I have installed Bento, it was > heating, and > quite long. Once installed it was not comfortable for use. I removed all > possible items > to gain speed, such as update-notifier and other tools which we can manage > without them, > replaced lxpanel by tint2 (which is permanently installed and ready to go, > just a switch > of files in the autostart directory of the user is needed), and same for > pcmanfm, I > switched to feh displaying the background and finally I configured the eth0 > internet > connection in the interfaces file of /etc/network/ and removed > nm-applet/network-gnome-manager. > > The issue would more come from the cpu than from the ram, by the way. Anyhow > I added 512 > MB which I found in my stock and that started to be better. Better means the > cpu is > reaching 100% use when using Synaptic, or while apt-get install is at the > install stage > of the process. Else than that, Firefox, Midori, Libreoffice, can be used. > > I had done other things such as cleaning the 2 fans full of dust, removing > some screws > that were having a walk on the motherboard, and added heat paste as none was > left. > > I put lxpanel back as well as pcmanfm managing the desktop, and also > nm-applet for some > reasons... met issues with several features without these items. > > I had also tried slim instead of lightdm, but then I could not access to > internal > partitions as simple user anymore : there is probably an issue around a file > missing > in /etc/pam.d : if someone finds out how that should be done, I would like to > try to add > such a slim file, because there is one in Archlinux where no such issue > occurs (I use it > everyday with Slim). > > I would probably leave this system with nodm, but then also the internal > partitions > aren't seen, and the session is not seen as active by ConsoleKit. I don't > know what other > issues can occur from a non active session. I don't have enough knowledge > around this > topic. > > For older machines I suggest the following distributions, in that order: > > antiX; > Slitaz; > Puppy Linux; > Damn Small Linux. > > > Take note of this when you install on another machine: > > by installing on another machine and putting back the hard drive on an older > machine, the > result is often a black screen. What is needed then is boot to init3, and > once you get a > prompt, login into the terminal, fix the graphics, and then you can reboot > and login > to the X session (using a startx command from the init3 stage if needed, with > a ~/.xinitrc > file if needed, which belongs to a package that might not be installed... > that might be > the "xinit" package or something of the kind). > > About antiX : I have installed it to a machine having 192 MB ram and it could > not be > upgraded in ram. The proc was a 800 Mhz Celeron. When I finished tweaking > antiX for > performance (zram configured and sorted out, prelink for Libreoffice), it > could be used > without pain. Therefore I would not suggest lower specs for old machines than > 192 MB ram > and 800 Mhz CPU. > > Here is the zram-config files used in antiX, if some are interested to test > it (it can't > be used in Ubuntu, this is for Debian branded distros which still use > rc-sysinit). > http://meets.free.fr/Downloads/Debian/zramconfig/zram/ > here a tarball containing it all and ready to be unpacked (as root): > http://meets.free.fr/Downloads/Debian/zramconfig/ > > Regards, > Mélodie >
Thank you very much for all this good advice Mélodie :-) Best regards/Nio -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
