Comments on: A legacy laptop edge for Linux?

By: 451 CAOS Theory » Linux facing first real desktop test

451 CAOS Theory » Linux facing first real desktop test — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:20:04 +0000

[...] on. Let’s remember that notebooks are now the dominant form factor for PCs, and emerging markets and new form factors, such as the [...]

By: Dzo

Dzo — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:51:15 +0000

Well Written

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By: Jay Lyman

Jay Lyman — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:53:08 +0000

Hi Russell,

Thanks for the post and the suggestion. You’re not the first to recommend taking Puppy Linux for a walk, and I definitely plan on trying it out on some of my old hardware. Coincidentally, I also have a real dog that is part Lab, boxer, pit bull, coon hound and gosh knows what else. Her nickname is Puppy Linux since she is an open source dog.

Cheers,

By: russell harris

russell harris — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:02:09 +0000

Hi,You must try puppy linux,there are many different versions,thanks largely to the re-mastering software
incorporated into the distro.It has just about the best hardware detection of any of the ones I`ve tried,only ubuntu/kubuntu come vaguely close.

Currently,its only weakness is in bluetooth,although
this is being worked on with some good results already coming in.It also is highly intuitive,with most common tasks acheived from the desktop GUI,minimising the use of the bash shell(hooray!!)

It is also very small 64meg to 98 meg depending on
version.You`ll easily find it using google,prepare yourself to be amazed!I was.

I am currently using TMXXINE a clever derivative with
puppy as the core.This is comparatively huge at 330meg,and runs very well on My 2 gig pc,but a minimum of half a gig of memory on slow machines would really help,whereas puppy 2.14 runs pretty well in64meg of ram on My old 400mnz laptop,with a swap partition of course.

Have a go at it,You won`t regret it.

By: ray

ray — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:09:00 +0000