19 Jan
2015
19 Jan
'15
11:24 a.m.
From: lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com
To: trinity-users(a)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:
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
On Monday 19 January 2015 16.16:57 Lisi Reisz
wrote:
I don't know exactly - I didn't get a close look.
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 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