Comments on: Xubuntu 7.04 on a 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb

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Fluxbuntu 7.10 RC on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:40:41 +0000

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IceWM and Ubuntu 7.04 on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:57:17 +0000

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By: Bob Hunter

Bob Hunter — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:44:26 +0000

I have an old clunker desktop that I use for testing lite distros. 400MHz AMD K6-III with 512MB RAM. Beafanatix works well on this machine. Straight Debian works OK too.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:28:00 +0000

Did you dban the harddrive from the previous installation? If I’m reading correctly, you had Ubuntu on that machine before. I actually got the idea from you to wipe a harddrive before reinstalling, so I’m assuming you did wipe it.

I got the iPod Shuffle. I think it will work better for me when working out, running, etc. The best thing is that it bookmarks, and syncs where I am on a podcast or audiobook. The only thing I regret is having to use iTunes. I know Rhythmbox and others will work with an iPod, but right now I need the podcast content more than spending time getting it to work with Linux.

I’ve subscribed to three Network Security podcast for my Security+ class. Good podcasts. I think I might put them on my blog.

By: lucchox

lucchox — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:26:25 +0000

I have a similar laptop, a compaq presario 1692 with K6-2 450mhz , 192 mb of ram (because its the limit, i can put 320 mb and the bios show me thats ok, but the OSs takes only 192 , i dont know why) and a old 6GB Segate HD (runs at 11mb/s and if i put a new 5400rpms WD HD 60GB i have 11,6 mb/s so its a limit of IDE i think).
Iam running debian etch with xfce as desktop(previusly i try xubuntu, zenwalk, slax, and others), its very fast if you compare with other distros but it is not sufficient for me, i need something faster.

About the smbus error (ALI15X3 not detected) i have the same error with all kernels that i try, even with my own compiled kernels, the module need a address where load to be passed, so i doit but i get the same error, i think that maybe about this error i cannt get better results with a new 5400 rpms HD, because the IDE support 33MB/s so my HD must to runs at 26 MB/s like in other laptop does.
If anybody knows i why to get the HD runs faster please tellme, i had tried hdparm with all combinations with out news.
And i will be waiting for others post at this blog because like i say we have a similar laptop so if you get it i do it too.
Thanks, and sorry about my english.
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