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Re: What year is your computer? How old?
« Reply #46 on: February 21, 2018, 05:51:16 PM »
 

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The HP  in my signature is my main desktop for SOHO, and gets a hammering daily.  The Fuji Si1520 laptop is my "run around" etc.  Both circa 12 years old and working fine; Thanks to LL of course !  Mind you the HP doubles as an air filter and needs a thorough internal Spring Clean every year:)
My home server/CCTV system is also a Core2Duo with 4Gb of RAM, running Windows 7 x64. My main system is a first generation Core i7 that I built in 2010. That's hardly a 15 year old 32 bit system with 1Gb of RAM though is it? That is what those posts were about, OLD 32 bit systems and the diminishing amount of support for 32 bit. Read back a little and you should pick up where you went astray! Honestly, operating systems and computers don't warrant a religion over them!
 
 

Re: What year is your computer? How old?
« Reply #45 on: February 21, 2018, 05:24:21 PM »
 

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I was just given an i5-2400 PC. I was happy then I found out it also had 16GB of RAM... wowza! :-D
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Re: What year is your computer? How old?
« Reply #44 on: February 21, 2018, 03:58:31 PM »
 

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The HP  in my signature is my main desktop for SOHO, and gets a hammering daily.  The Fuji Si1520 laptop is my "run around" etc.  Both circa 12 years old and working fine; Thanks to LL of course !  Mind you the HP doubles as an air filter and needs a thorough internal Spring Clean every year:)
2006 - HP DC7700p ultraslim Desktop Intel 6300 cpu  4GB Ram LL3.8 64bit.
2007 - Fujitsu Siemens V3405 Laptop  2 GB Ram LL3.6 32bit. Now 32bit Debian 9 + nonfree.
2006 - Fujitsu Siemens Si1520 Laptop Intel T720 cpu 3GB Ram   LL5.6 64 Bit
2014 - Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E754 Intel i7 4712MQ 16GB Ram LL6.6
2003 - RETIRED Toshiba Satellite Pro A10 1 GB RAM LL2.8 32bit
 

Re: What year is your computer? How old?
« Reply #43 on: February 21, 2018, 01:23:02 PM »
 

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My daily driver is a 2016 ASUS ROG G752VT-DH74. The specs are in my signature. My dad happens to have the same laptop as well, but his is slightly weaker than mine and had no preinstalled SSD in it (though I fixed that for him within weeks of getting the machine refurbished from eBay.) Both of these machines are "laptops" but only in the name. These are really desktop replacements because they are so large. 17 inch screen size. I had trouble finding a backpack that could fit a machine this large and thick. Battery life: 30mins-1hour, cut that in half if gaming unplugged.

My travel laptop is a 2013 HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11-e015dx, little 11 inch netbook. Has a swappable battery bay which is something that's becoming rare these days. This one is also touchscreen, but it's next to useless on Linux. It's now a strictly Linux machine, Linux Lite of course, but have run Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Manjaro at one point or another in the past. Battery life I get about 3-4 hours, and am looking to purchase another (maybe 2) batteries for uninterrupted unplug sessions out and about on college campus. AMD A6-1450 APU processor with AMD Radeon HD8250 graphics, 4Gb RAM.
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Re: What year is your computer? How old?
« Reply #42 on: February 21, 2018, 12:13:10 PM »
 

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Well neither I nor anyone else suggested it was even suitable for SOHO or serious use! It is what it is, an experimental, hobbyist OS. We are in a thread about old computers after all, you'll find they're hardly suitable for SOHO and banking!
 

Re: What year is your computer? How old?
« Reply #41 on: February 21, 2018, 09:27:20 AM »
 

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ptyerman, my concern re QUIRKY was what happens when Barry decides to retire again .    maybe OK for an enthusiast/hobbyist  but for SOHO  user with wife and bank manager to support :) ?
2006 - HP DC7700p ultraslim Desktop Intel 6300 cpu  4GB Ram LL3.8 64bit.
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2014 - Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E754 Intel i7 4712MQ 16GB Ram LL6.6
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Re: What year is your computer? How old?
« Reply #40 on: February 20, 2018, 10:50:10 AM »
 

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What year is my computer?
See signature below for our household's setups.
64bit OS (32-bit on Samsung netbook) installed in Legacy mode on MBR-formatted SSDs (except pi which uses a micro SDHC card):
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)  
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work
 

Re: What year is your computer? How old?
« Reply #39 on: February 20, 2018, 07:48:55 AM »
 

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Puppy is great once you spend some time with it, the PET system is more akin to the Windows way of doing things than anything else out there in Linux land! Think of Flatpack or Snap or any of the other recent package systems for Linux, Puppy has had PET for years, download, double click on it and it installs, simple.
Puppy is different though, and probably not suited to everyone. I prefer the older releases, up to and including version 4, wasn't keen on the idea or implementation after 4 when it started been based on Ubuntu and Slackware. It's a great OS for old systems and has served me quite well as a rescue system too, more than once.
There's also Quirky Linux now which is more like the old Puppy, plus it's developed by the original Puppy developer Barry Kauler.
 

Re: What year is your computer? How old?
« Reply #38 on: February 20, 2018, 02:54:44 AM »
 

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I personally never found Puppy L easy to understand; The PET system.  OK for browsing   webmail etc but for nothing serious.
That is why LL is a delight.  Intuitive, minimal terminal needed, and great forum.  All this will be lost to newbies and I fear that other distros will be too "complicated" for them to transition.

Would love to see a LL debian fork for 32 bit. i.e LL helping hand continuing.  . Personally trying MX17 , but not as intuitive as LL I am afraid..  Will have to persevere and the Fuji is in far too good a condition to consign to the scrap heap.  Probably outlast me :)
2006 - HP DC7700p ultraslim Desktop Intel 6300 cpu  4GB Ram LL3.8 64bit.
2007 - Fujitsu Siemens V3405 Laptop  2 GB Ram LL3.6 32bit. Now 32bit Debian 9 + nonfree.
2006 - Fujitsu Siemens Si1520 Laptop Intel T720 cpu 3GB Ram   LL5.6 64 Bit
2014 - Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E754 Intel i7 4712MQ 16GB Ram LL6.6
2003 - RETIRED Toshiba Satellite Pro A10 1 GB RAM LL2.8 32bit
 

Re: What year is your computer? How old?
« Reply #37 on: February 20, 2018, 02:00:22 AM »
 

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Yeah, 32 bit across the board is been killed off far too prematurely I think. It still has a massive base in the embedded market and also in the developing countries. Problem is, when the mother base distro such as Ubuntu, Fedora and such like stop supporting it, all distro's based of them have to stop too!
Fortunately there's some independents out there like Puppy Linux that will probably carry on 32 bit for a good many years yet.
Like many others, I build, repair and use old systems, to watch the dwindling support is saddening.
 

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« Reply #36 on: February 20, 2018, 12:14:46 AM »
 

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 Interesting to see life breathed into this old thread.
Given the pending demise of LL 32bit in LL4.X onwards, what advice will we give to New(ish) convertees to linux in the future.  LL3.8 32bit , according to development roadmap, is scheduled to be supported until end first quarter 2021?  Believe  LL2.8 32bit is nearing its end of support  in circa 12 months.. (April 2019 ??)


So question   what to do for linux newbies - to help them through the transition , so they get confident to grow into another 32 bit distro later on?    LL community  becomes a Linux kindergarten?

My old Tosh A10  struggled with LL3.0 32bit whilst was happy with LL2.8 32 bit.  Ran much smoother with a debian distro (Point Linux - now dead).
Eventually sold it to someone who wanted to use XP!!   Hopefully it is still running somewhere :)
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2006 - HP DC7700p ultraslim Desktop Intel 6300 cpu  4GB Ram LL3.8 64bit.
2007 - Fujitsu Siemens V3405 Laptop  2 GB Ram LL3.6 32bit. Now 32bit Debian 9 + nonfree.
2006 - Fujitsu Siemens Si1520 Laptop Intel T720 cpu 3GB Ram   LL5.6 64 Bit
2014 - Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E754 Intel i7 4712MQ 16GB Ram LL6.6
2003 - RETIRED Toshiba Satellite Pro A10 1 GB RAM LL2.8 32bit
 

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« Reply #35 on: February 19, 2018, 11:40:52 PM »
 

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@Coastie I have an old Dell Dimension too!  Hand-me-down, 512 RAM, Celeron processor.  It's running AntiX fast and flawless.  Even LXLE became slow and halting on it.


The old Dell is kinda a dust collector. I never liked for the DE on AntiX but MEPIS MX is probably my second favorite distro after LL. Partially because MEPIS 11 was my first attempt at trying Linux. Unfortunately, I got talked into moving to FEDORA. That was a big mistake and scared me away from Linux for several years.  :(


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Re: What year is your computer? How old?
« Reply #34 on: February 19, 2018, 09:07:10 PM »
 

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I successfully ran Antix on a old socket 7 AMD K6-2 500Mhz with 128Mb RAM! It ran fine and was useable too, I put a second 3.2Gb hard drive in it to use exclusively as swap which aided the low memory situation.
It was a few years ago but it wouldn't surprise me if Antix still ran on such a machine.
 

Re: What year is your computer? How old?
« Reply #33 on: February 19, 2018, 05:38:43 PM »
 

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@Coastie I have an old Dell Dimension too!  Hand-me-down, 512 RAM, Celeron processor.  It's running AntiX fast and flawless.  Even LXLE became slow and halting on it.
 

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« Reply #32 on: February 19, 2018, 03:52:33 PM »
 

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@justme2 gained a level in Necromancy after successfully reviving an almost two year old thread! ;)

Cheers!

I knew the age of the thread, but the information is very relevant to 2018 - owners of eeePC 701 and 901 now know that the latest release 3.8 of LL runs fine on those machines.  :P
1) Lenovo T520 i5 LL3.8 8GB ram, fast & stable
2) Medion P4 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, quite fast & stable
3) eeePC 901 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, fast & stable
4) eeePC 701 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, slower & stable but small and light enough to travel with me to New Zealand when visiting family in Blenheim.
 

 

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