D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> ...
> Other than that, the machine is functional.
I have an even older notebook with a 32-bit Atom processor. It used to be
useful, but after upgrading to the latest (Debian Bullseye) Firefox
barely starts and is glacial enough to be totally unusable. Older
That's sad. You could try running an external monitor. I'd give up on Linux
and run Win. I have found few use cases where I've given up on linux.
Sometimes linux runs slower than win, but not often.
I still have a 2002 Dell netbook running WinXP specifically for Chinese
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| From: Don Tai via talk
| 15 year old notebook. Will no version of Linux work? That's sad. I have
| desktops much older than that that can run puppy Linux.
I can run it with the kernel option "modprobe.blacklist=nouveau".
Then the screen resolution is 1024x768 instead of 1440x900. And that
