Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop? (Brian R Masterman)

2011-04-19 Thread CPK Smithies
Downloaded SliTaz and first impression suggest that this could be a really good solution. I hope it fulfils its promise. I'd be interested to hear how you get on with it. CPKS -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...

Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-04-09 Thread Mark Elkins
Brian Had a lot of trouble putting Puppy on it, had to use an old build as the latest would not go on. That indicates a defect in Puppy not the laptop. I doubt you would have had this trouble with Ubuntu 10.04 and with 512mb it would have run fine. Mark Elkins -- Next meeting: Blandford

Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-04-09 Thread John Cooper
On 08/04/11 14:12, Brian R Masterman wrote: Thanks for the advise. The Toshiba Satellite 1000 has a limited memory of 512MB due to the old style DIMMs. I wanted to use Audacity as it allows editing out bits of the recordings and saving as mp3. Had a lot of trouble putting Puppy on it, had to

Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-04-09 Thread John Cooper
On 08/04/11 14:12, Brian R Masterman wrote: Thanks for the advise. The Toshiba Satellite 1000 has a limited memory of 512MB due to the old style DIMMs. I wanted to use Audacity as it allows editing out bits of the recordings and saving as mp3. Had a lot of trouble putting Puppy on it, had to

Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-04-08 Thread Brian R Masterman
Thanks for the advise. The Toshiba Satellite 1000 has a limited memory of 512MB due to the old style DIMMs. I wanted to use Audacity as it allows editing out bits of the recordings and saving as mp3. Had a lot of trouble putting Puppy on it, had to use an old build as the latest would not go

Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-04-03 Thread Mark Elkins
+0100 From: CPK Smithies c...@smithies.org Subject: Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop? To: dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Message-ID: 130172.6477.5.camel@p2cs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I recommend you have a look at SliTaz, http://www.slitaz.org/en/get/ . The Cooking

Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-04-02 Thread CPK Smithies
I recommend you have a look at SliTaz, http://www.slitaz.org/en/get/ . The Cooking distribution has Audacity. I have installed SliTaz on an old laptop with only 128Mb RAM and it was fine. The GUI is impressive for its size and the package handling intuitive. SliTaz is under active development.

Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-03-31 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Brian On 30/03/11 18:46, Brian Masterman wrote: I have an old laptop that I wish to install Linux on with audacity for recording purposes. All the modern distros fail as the are too heavy on ram and disks etc. What I need is to setup an auto-login and startup audacity and allow usb

Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-03-31 Thread Mark Elkins
(The system is a Toshiba 1000 with 384MB ram 120GB disk) Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) will run on this at a respectable speed. What you might find is that after you've downloaded and installed updates it runs slow until you reboot it again - that's install reboot and then reboot again. Surely

Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-03-31 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 31/03/11 14:40, Mark Elkins wrote: Alternatively if you don't want to upgrade the memory you could try Ubuntu Light (Lite?). I'm currently using Linux Mint Debian which I have found to be significantly faster than either Linux Mint or Ubuntu. Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and

[Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-03-30 Thread Brian Masterman
I have an old laptop that I wish to install Linux on with audacity for recording purposes. All the modern distros fail as the are too heavy on ram and disks etc. What I need is to setup an auto-login and startup audacity and allow usb transfer afterwards. (The system is a Toshiba 1000 with

Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-03-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 30/03/11 18:46, Brian Masterman wrote: I have an old laptop that I wish to install Linux on with audacity for recording purposes. All the modern distros fail as the are too heavy on ram and disks etc. What I need is to setup an auto-login and startup audacity and allow usb transfer

Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-03-30 Thread Peter Merchant
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 18:46 +0100, Brian Masterman wrote: I have an old laptop that I wish to install Linux on with audacity for recording purposes. All the modern distros fail as the are too heavy on ram and disks etc. What I need is to setup an auto-login and startup audacity and allow

Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-03-30 Thread John Cooper
On 30/03/11 18:46, Brian Masterman wrote: I have an old laptop that I wish to install Linux on with audacity for recording purposes. All the modern distros fail as the are too heavy on ram and disks etc. What I need is to setup an auto-login and startup audacity and allow usb transfer

Re: [Dorset] Which Linux Distro for old laptop?

2011-03-30 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:46:37 +0100, Brian Masterman b...@seahues.net wrote: I have an old laptop that I wish to install Linux on with audacity for recording purposes. All the modern distros fail as the are too heavy on ram and disks etc. I cry rubbish. Stop trying to enable Gnome/KDE