User Feedback :: reviving old notebooks

Quote (dare2dreamer @ Sep. 26 2005,15:04)

I got a toshiba 440 CDT here. Added 64 megs of ram, and am planning on converting it over to compact flash sometime soon.

For all the tech toys I play with, I keep coming back to it as the most reliable machine I've ever used. Only thing I had to do was add some modprobe info to bootlocal.sh to get the sound going.

That usually is the biggest issue...having to activate one or more drivers for preriphrials..other than that..I have never had DSL *NOT* run on a machine

Brian
AwPhuch

im on a dell server laptop....

128MB RAM
20Gig HD
DSL On drive
32x Cd-Rom
Floppy
10-100-1000 PCM Card (Ethernet)

I couldnt find the display driver through windows for it...Windows wouldnt even tell me what the card was in it....im glad i ddint throw it out....

IT HAS A ATI-Rage Mobility in it! I had no idea!

Anyways, This is the best distro since.........ever!

DSCrome

I'm running a Compaq Armada 7800, pII 266, 96M ram, SOHOWARE pcmcia card (that I could not get to work under win98 or XP). Hard drive partitioned with Ubunto, swap, DSL and /home. I can log in to Ubunto or DSL and I have the same home directories for both (had to go into Ubunto and make sure the User IDs were the same so the owner would be the same under both), I didn't have to but I created a DSL user on Ubunto just to keep everything sync'd. Using Ubunto I set up XDMCP and used my laptop as an app server for a pI 200 runing Basic Linux. I am eventually going to have a server running with DSL (once I can get XDM to work) and have my kids log in with their 486 and 133 laptops as X-Terminals (running DSL of course). DSL is so much faster than other OS's I have tried.

Regards,
Brian

Quote (DSCrome @ Sep. 26 2005,19:24)

What exacly are you serving with that laptop??

Seems sweet, how well does it work for you...and what application do you plan on using it as??

Brian
AwPhuch

133mhz Digital Hinote, 40MB ram, 12.1"TFT 800x600 res., no battery, no CD-Rom drive, old PCMCIA Zircom creditcard modem. Made a big upgrade yesterday from v0.93 to v1.5 (HD installed) which really seems more polished and reliable. Abiword, Jpilot are my main extension add-ons plus a load of Fluxbox themes I put together.
The display quality for these two .DSLs is great, and they both seem to work a little better. Modem seems to work better with my dial-up ISP now - very few broken Sylpheed connections. Marvellous.

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