[Novalug] Distros for old PCs?

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Sat May 18 15:14:42 EDT 2013


I don't recall what the hardware is (cpu and memory)
On May 18, 2013 10:46 AM, "Beartooth" <beartooth@beartooth.info> wrote:

> On Sat, 18 May 2013, Jason P. Thomas wrote:
>
> > I don't know how willing you are to depart from rpm land, but
> > I've had some luck on older hardware with Bodhi Linux
> > (www.bodhilinux.com).  The 32-bit install works on some circa
> > year 2000 laptops I have kicking around at work. Other users
> > have had great success with the nonpae kernel version on
> > equally old if not older hardware.
>
>         I have bodhi, bodhi non-pae, and bloated bodhi ISOs, all
> of them variants on 2.2, downloaded but not yet tried. Is there
> an obvious first choice?
>
>         Believe it or not, I also have CentOS 6.4 installed, up,
> and running -- but it keeps failing to connect for some reason
> ....
>
>         Networkmanager applet 0.8.1 runs blue rings around in the
> panel for a while, then reports itself disconnected. It also
> offers a pseudo-choice, if I right-click, between Wired
> Connection and eth0; in fact, the cable to the router is the only
> connection the machine has or has ever had.
>
>         I've tried such things as I could find to get a
> connection, in vain.
>
>         If there's a good fix, I'd like to get Jo running CentOS,
> because it's one obvious choice for her to have against such time
> as I'm gone. (I don't at all claim to be the Oldest Novalugger,
> but at my age it would be irrational not to plan for such
> contingencies.)
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
> Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
>
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