On Monday 19 January 2015 15:53:04 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Monday 19 January 2015 16.16:57 Lisi Reisz wrote:
Alexandre,
As you know, disagreements we may have had, but I have always tried to give credit where credit was due.
At my local Linux Users Group meeting on Saturday, someone was wanting help to get Linux on his oldish laptop.
(... PCLinuxOS + 14)
installed. No problem.
(..)
Lisi
Hello Lisi,
How "oldish" ?
I don't know exactly - I didn't get a close look.
I just dug out two Laptop I had used 15 years ago when I started using Linux (and KDE, 0.4 if I remember well). They use 600 and 700 MHz PIII, do you think Alexandre's PCLinuxOS could run on that? Otherwise I have to look if I still have older SuSE versions (of course Puppy should run on that, but it's a little light for me).
I would have my reservations about Alexandre's CD running on your laptops, but I would also be inclined to give it a go. It is a Live CD. What have you to lose? But I would also try Exegnu Linux, and installing from, say, a Debian netinstall CD, and the repos. You don't say how much memory the laptops have. Live CDs need quite a lot of memory to run in the first place, which the installed OS may not.
Lisi