Comments on: Meet the Little Laptop That Could

By: Panic mode « Motho ke motho ka botho

Panic mode « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:28:36 +0000

[...] Published April 20, 2008 Hardware , Linux , Ubuntu The sudden uselessness of the ugly little laptop has officially put me into panic mode — now, with only about a week to go before the Hardy [...]

By: harii

harii — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:29:13 +0000

give antix-mepis a try.
Works well with older hardware and is fast.
I use it on my old gateway solo 2500 laptop.
233 mhz and 128 ram runs fast and wireless was a snap.
when i installed antix– i only had 64 ram.

By: Entropy « Motho ke motho ka botho

Entropy « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:27:25 +0000

[...] Published April 18, 2008 Ubuntu Now, a week after picking up a new hard drive for the ugly little laptop, I’m getting repeated errors from the CDROM. And I’m afraid this could be the [...]

By: bootchart: It’s gotta be the shoes « Motho ke motho ka botho

bootchart: It’s gotta be the shoes « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:07:54 +0000

[...] bootchart: It’s gotta be the shoes Published April 16, 2008 Ubuntu Here’s something I haven’t thought to keep as a record: a bootchart for a default Ubuntu Hardy installation on the ugly little laptop. [...]

By: Surprise of the week … or month … or year « Motho ke motho ka botho

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:32:25 +0000

[...] You could knock me over with a feather right now, as my American friends used to say, because that obnoxious little laptop makes the leap from the Grub boot screen to the Debian Sarge Gnome desktop in one minute, 43 [...]

By: Another soldier returns to the fray « Motho ke motho ka botho

Another soldier returns to the fray « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:46:46 +0000

[...] , Linux , Ubuntu After a brief swing past an electronics store on my way home from work, the ugly little laptop is back in [...]

By: Nothing lasts forever « Motho ke motho ka botho

Nothing lasts forever « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:27:02 +0000

[...] Crux and the Debian network installer and they’re all telling me that the hard drive in the ugly little laptop has finally [...]

By: Expected and unexpected « Motho ke motho ka botho

Expected and unexpected « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:15:08 +0000

[...] March 25, 2008 Ubuntu , Ubuntu Forums My first run through the Hardy beta with the Ugly Little Laptop is proceeding, more or less, as expected. A lot of the old issues (I’m not calling them bugs) [...]

By: Josh Miller

Josh Miller — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:22:41 +0000

I have a PC like this. It’s lower specs though. I want to say it’s a Pentium 2 with 355mhz processor and maybe 64 meg of ram (after I added a spare chip). It’s only got a tiny 2 gig drive I salvaged out of a dead laptop from work. I’ve paid nothing for this PC though. Part of the benefit of being the IT guy in a business extremely dependent on reliable technology (television) is that when something fails, it gets replaced. This leaves a fair amount of older “broken yet salvageable” computer equipment and parts for me to cannibalize.

Anyway, I couldn’t get Ubuntu or gOS to install on it. The bios is too old even with an update. I ended up putting Puppy Linux on it. Once I get Wifi going it’ll become a bedside word processing machine and occasional music player.

My current project PC is putting Ubuntu on a 1ghz desktop to use as an emulation/game station/media player for the television. My ultimate goal is to not need a mouse and keyboard but be able to navigate using the game controller and some splash screen style interface. Not sure it it’s something I can accomplish.

By: So long, you crazy kid « Motho ke motho ka botho

So long, you crazy kid « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:36:23 +0000

[...] XO laptop Well, it was a long and interesting run, but it was time to take the Ugly Little Laptop back to work, and I think this time it’s for good. I’ve taken it down from my hardware [...]