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It was all libre volunteer service, I tested 6 different OSI, 3 from
GNU'LINUX and SLItaz did the job. It felt like I was working under pressure
and not getting paid for it. I had better luck with P3 and P4 desktop but
laptops this old was extremely hard. Yet, my friend told me, that he
Out of curiosity, did you try ConnochaetOS?
(http://www.connochaetos.org/wiki/)
Chris said:
A 7 year old laptop is REALLY pushing it technologically. It might be time
for a new system :)
With GNU/Linux in general though you can usually keep such systems on life
support without going insane longer though. Just use the LTS releases. But
even that has its limits.
I don't know if you tried Dragora, but that should work on such a system the
next time you come across one. It's supposed to be lightweight and simple,
and it lists 64 MB as its minimum RAM requirement.
I would suggest it too, but it is KISS; non-experienced (or, better,
not-willing-to-experienciate) users may have troubles with it. It seems the
case of this man and his friend.
I have used Trisquel 5.5 on a laptop with 256 RAM and a 700 MHz x86
processor. It was probably made around 1999-2000. It was my main computer
for about 4 months. I used it mainly for communicating (email and Jabber),
web browsing, notes and web development. It was adequate.
I installed
Bad news
Trisquel is not able to install on his laptop, the minimum requirements is
512k of memory, His laptop only has 486k.
I had to switch to something else light that will use lesser amount of
memory.
In the mean time, while I was doing this, I did lend him my old laptop which
486 kilobytes of RAM? That was extremely small years ago. Surely you must
mean 486 megabytes of RAM?
Assuming you actually meant MB and not KB, all you need to do to fix the
problem is install a lightweight DE, like LXDE or Xfce. Xfce is what the
OpenPandora uses, with only 256 MB of RAM.
I understand what you are saying, unfortunately most of my friends and family
do not. As I have given them partially working installations of Trisquel due
to lack of free drivers, only to have them ask me to re-install Windows.
Which having them switch back to Windows does not solve the
My brother quit Linux Mint despite having huge slowdown problems with Windows
probably because of a combination of a few small issues (some driver issue
with the video that caused bad 3D graphics, trouble with his wireless, and
lack of nonfree game support). His conclusion in the end was
Onpo4
You are right is only 486 Meg, I did try Trisquel Mini, it DOES NOT WORK, it
requires 512-Meg as a minimum. Trisquel Mini is not designed for systems with
less than 512 Megs of ram.
Trisquel kick the bucket on this one, as much I liked, it does not work,
neither will allow you to
A 7 year old laptop is REALLY pushing it technologically. It might be time
for a new system :)
With GNU/Linux in general though you can usually keep such systems on life
support without going insane longer though. Just use the LTS releases. But
even that has its limits.
No links appeared, Chris.
Jodiendo, I would boot the system with a Trisquel LiveCD and test the
wireless; if it doesn't work, which is most probable, then I would teach my
(your) friend about what many companies do in order to have control of the
market: restrict the consumer/user's
Most here may not agree with my response but I would suggest, for someone who
is new to the GNU Linux environment, to get them a distro that will give them
the least problems when it comes to compatibility with hardware. I did this
with my friends and family as I gave them Ubuntu
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Le 13-02-08 10:24 PM, ch...@thinkpenguin.com a écrit :
Besides the USB G adapter option there is also a mini pci card option most
likely. You can
replace the card inside the laptop. It looks like it should be an easy
thing to do. There appears to
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Le 13-02-09 12:37 PM, r...@ronbravo.com a écrit :
Most here may not agree with my response but I would suggest, for someone who
is new to the GNU Linux
environment, to get them a distro that will give them the least problems
when it comes to
Sorry guys, been working extra long hours on the field.
Here is the latest news, as of today.
After explaining, the lack of full cooperation, That certain companies
consider those drivers and firmware to be theirs, and sometimes there is no
support TO THE GNU/linux COMMUNITY: hes reply
I second this.
Including nonfree drivers and firmware does not result in the least amount of
problems; it results in the most amount of problems being hidden. Eventually
the nonfree software will fail, and when it does, the person you introduced
GNU/Linux to will be frustrated and assume
Not wanting to spend money because the computer is old. Sounds like my mom.
If you're feeling charitable, you could offer to buy something for him, but
that might not be something you can do.
Try mentioning this: if a new component is bought, it can be used on future
laptops and other
I've heard others advocate a similar strategy involving a multi-step
strategy of moving people to free software. The problem I find with
this is that everyone then spends all of their time on step one (being
more free than they were in step zero) and no one moves on to step two
(fully free.) We
Ronbravo and MAGIC FAB
Thanks for your suggestion, all are valid.
I'm going to stick to my game plan on persuade him to purchase and sharing
the cost for a card or an adapter, that will ease the pain. I think he is
getting a sweet deal from me, sort of speak.
While typing, on my
Christ
If I'm successful in persuading him, once I purchase what ever adapter we
choose. Don't forget to toss a mouse pad in the package just for libre
purposes. LOL
Onpong
Excellent suggestions.
You just gave me more ammunition to reinforce my comments.Are you sure
you are a Lawyer? lol
Thank You
JXself
Exactly, If I'm successful I believe I graduated from Step one.
So, in your own interpretation, what is Step 2?
Be my Polaris star on this one, just guide me.
Hey, I could pin point with accuracy the Polaris star at night, If you need
help.
During my Army days, One of the
The problem with randomly installing GNU/Linux is the hardware in general
isn't well supported. It'll work today although not tomorrow. There really
isn't a problem with Ubuntu on hardware which is better supported from an
ease of use perspective.
Getting people to move away from a
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Dammit, I just order a card for myself, I wish I could bought him one...I got
no more money to spare,
until the end of the month.
I have an idea:
I will try to persuade him to purchase a new
Recently, I had a visit from a very close and old friend of mines. During
the long Parle, of many new subjects and issues. The subject of his old
laptop came up; “the famous WIN XP PRO” was acting up. He wanted to
format the whole drive and install something different and not spend
To solve the Wifi problem maybe buy it :
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-g-usb-adapter
or find something else and try.
I’m asking the community, in case the Wi-Fi does not work;
what should I do?, What would you recommend?
Well, the optimal solution would be to get a USB WiFi adapter, such as the
one sold at http://libre.thinkpenguin.com. Just be straight with your friend:
tell him that the manufacturer
Yeah, you should just buy a new wifi card or a USB wifi adapter supported by
free software. Also, please report your friends laptop and its parts to
h-node by booting it up from a Trisquel GNU/Linux live-CD (or any other fully
free distro of your choise) if you can. It would help.
Make sure you blame the culprit responsible here: Intel Acer.
Trisquel and the free software community are not getting the cooperation
needed to support this intel wifi card. If you buy hardware less hostile to
free software there isn't likely to be a problem.
The good news is you can
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