What year is your computer? How old?

[Jocklad]

Dell Dimension 3000 1gb ram circa 2005....not sure I built it from scrap

Running LL 2.8 32 bit,very well.

Jocklad 

Sadly my faithful old Dell passed away this morning. (motherboard failure)

Now left without a 32 bit machine

[Ray H]

2003 - Dell Dimension 8300 desktop, 1GB RAM - LL2.8

[Teddy]

My oldest running LL is my Dell Dimension 5100C desktop from 2005. My configuration cost about $1100 USD when it was new. Mine is more basic though, didn't come with the optional TV tuner card or 9-in-1 card reader, but does have performance boost from the base 2.8 Ghz Penitum 4. This has the TRUE dual-core Penitum D 2.8 Ghz.


My Desktop: Dell Dimension 5100C

This is my spare machine I use for testing all kinds of Linux distros and previews of Windows. A quick machine considering its age. Also used occasionally as a background music machine for my job live-streaming commercial-free Icecast / Shoutcast radio streams. Has a S/PDIF (Optical) 5.1 Surround Audio output used on a Harman/Kardon A/V Receiver. Creates static free and crisp high quality sound!

It has a gear-operated door cover that covers the DVD Drive, Floppy Drive (or optional 9 in 1 Media Card Reader for SD Cards, Memory Stick, CompactFlash, etc.), 3.5 mm Audio Jacks, Firewire 400, and 2 USB 2.0 Ports. This is with it open.



Door cover closed.



Neat feature!

Processor: Intel Pentium D Dual-Core @ 2.8 Ghz (No HyperThreading)
Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (Intel 945G Chipset) - Very good with Linux, present on alot of older Intel Atoms from the netbook craze era.
Hard Drive: Western Digital Blue 80GB
Other Storage: 3.5inch TEAC Floppy Drive - Not shown in above pictures.
RAM: 2.0 GB DDR2 667 Mhz Memory (3 of 4 RAM Slots Used) (4GB Max)
Wireless LAN: No Wireless Card Installed
LAN: Intel Ethernet Card
Display: 1440x900 HP 1907w Desktop Monitor with rear-facing stereo speakers
Operating System: My Machine For Distro-Hopping or Testing OS's. All kinds of things go in this field.

[Jerry]

I bought an Acer Aspire 8920g, circa 2008. Was the LL dev machine believe it or not for a few releases.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2310777,00.asp?tab=Specs

[tek10]

newtusmaximus - It's been so long since I had Vista running on this G60, I can't give an accurate answer. I can say I've never had a problem with overheating using Vista or Linux. I've had several different distros installed, all using openbox or xfce. Currently dual booting with LL2.8 and SolydX. I periodically do a thorough cleaning to maintain good airflow .

[m654321]

See info below for year of manufacture & set-up details at my place...

Mike

[newtusmaximus]

Tek10 - re your G60. do you find that it runs cooler than when on Vista- ??  The one our family had was for ever over heating on Vista and becoming erratic.

[tek10]

The oldest system I'm using is a 2009 HP G60 laptop that came with Vista and 3GB RAM. It ran fine with LL1.6 32 bit and runs great with LL2.8 64 bit. I also run LL on a custom built desktop and an HTPC. Both have components dating from 2012 to this year and are modified about once a year.

[paul1149]

Interesting question, which I've been mulling since Chrome/Chromium stopped flash support for 32bit Linux.

I'm personally on a Dell Precision T3400 tower, with a 2.4GHz Core2Duo and 4GB RAM. All is very well. I've converted several XP units and a few Vista units, one of which had been upgraded to Win7. My unit is 64bit, but all the others were 32bit.

[avj]

Running Linux Lite 2.8 on this Acer Aspire One AOA150 ZG5 (Series one netbook) it was manufactured in 2008. It has an Intel Atom N270 processor @ 1.6 Ghz, and 1 GB ram and came with Xp installed on the 120 GB HDD. It is my everyday machine. 

[firenice03]

My oldest currently running system is probably the MINI in my sig (around '09) 1gb non-upgrade able ram...
Came with XP and ran great, tried Win7 became a dog and used less and less found LL and back to using more.
- Still has Win7 but has been booted to in a year.. Maybe with LL 3.0 I'll see about SSD and/or remove windoze altogether.

LL revived the Mini, able to continue using a HP1000 Laserjet printer (no drivers win7 64bit -only 32)
The 160 is the "kids" machine - Triple boots Win7, Linux Mint and LL (LL is the fav)

Newest is the Kangaroo at a few months old, its about the size of cell phone dual boots with Win10; LL currently runs on an SD Card..

And 1 other running Win7 but has a lot VM's from other Win's desktops and Servers to Mint, Mandriva and CentOS..

[rokytnji]

They are shown in my signature. I have older and other capable gear that I run other distros on.

[justme2]

early 2004 model, Medion laptop, Pentium 4, 1GB ram, LL2.8 on 80GB HD
2009 eeePC 901, 1GB ram, LL2.8 on 32GB SDHC
2010 eeePC 701SD, 1GB ram, LL2.8 on 8GB SSD

LL2.8 runs remarkably well on all three machines

[nomko]

My laptop is from end 2014 or early 2015. Can't exactly remember which period i bought it since i was on the hunt for a good system a long time. But it's at least 1-1/2 years old.

[Jocklad]

Dell Dimension 3000 1gb ram circa 2005....not sure I built it from scrap

Running LL 2.8 32 bit,very well.

Jocklad