> From: lisi.reisz@gmail.com
> To: trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net
> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:09:15 +0000
> Subject: Re: [trinity-users] PCLinuxOS Trinity Live CD
>
> 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
>

Hi Lisi,

I'm delighted to see that you did try my LiveCD. Thank you very much!
It is still based on 3.5.13.2, instead of R14 as you wrote, but it is not a problem at all.

I'd say that if your laptop has at least 512mb of RAM, you will be okay on PCLinuxOS. It should work from as low as 256mb, but choose to go right to the installer on the GRUB boot menu, so that it will work. Hardware support and detection works most of the time flawlessly. PCLinuxOS is the linux that ''just works'', so it is always my best choice.

I will decide in the following weeks if I will still base my remaster on TDE 3.5.13.2 another time or if I'll upgrade it to R14.0.0. But 3.5.13.2 reliability is so good!

Thank you very much!
-Alexandre