Comments on: Suddenly things make sense

By: More details, some minor advancements « Motho ke motho ka botho

More details, some minor advancements « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:02:44 +0000

[...] make a big difference. It’s interesting to note that the 32Mb stick I got a long time ago, that didn’t work in the older Pentium … doesn’t work in this one [...]

By: Putting the Pentium back to work « Motho ke motho ka botho

Putting the Pentium back to work « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:37:57 +0000

[...] manager on the Arch Forums the other day, and I was thinking that might be even more appealing than Awesome … since Musca apparently weighs in at an emaciated 600Kb+, while running. It sounded perfect [...]

By: Working with VESA 1.2 « Motho ke motho ka botho

Working with VESA 1.2 « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:07:35 +0000

[...] do a graphical desktop, and I’ve used it for some unusual setups in the past — IceWM, Awesome, even Openbox once or twice (with terrible results ). But it’s a slow beast, doesn’t [...]

By: A fork in the road « Motho ke motho ka botho

A fork in the road « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:26:02 +0000

[...] memory chip still doesn’t appear in the BIOS or in the system, and that is also disheartening. It’s [...]

By: Settling in at 100Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho

Settling in at 100Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:08:00 +0000

[...] there’s little to tell or share. My last advance in usability for the 100Mhz laptop — awesome with console applications — seems to have set in for the long run. I haven’t traced the root of the memory issue, [...]

By: Cosay Nold

Cosay Nold — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:53:58 +0000

Personally, I am a fan of Evilwm:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cosay-nold/3243490434/

By: urukrama

urukrama — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:36:50 +0000

I use Awesome nearly exclusively on one of my older laptops for the exact same reasons you mentioned.

I’m glad that post of mine was of some help.

By: T. Lindsay

T. Lindsay — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:53:42 +0000

Hopefully my past experiences with revamping older machines (desktops mostly, mind you) will help you use that extra 32M memory. Sometimes I’ve had success with replacing the memory with the largest piece being installed in the first bank (bank 0), and then working my way to lower density pieces as I install in the remaining slot(s).
Is the piece in question double-sided (memory chips on both sides)? Then you may need to leave memory out of bank 1 or bank 2, then progress further up. Of course, most laptops have only 2 slots.
Some laptops also have some memory soldered on board, which makes it impossible to try the more dense memory first. (But you could try the opposite tack …)
Hope this helps

By: sertse

sertse — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:32:26 +0000

I’m partial to xmonad myself; I picked it up pretty quickly.

By: Copper

Copper — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:29:40 +0000

I recommend Wmii. Only use 2MB max and is a joy to use, coming from Openbox.