What year is your computer? How old?

[Coastie]

My daily computer as described to the left was bought new in 2015 to run Linux Lite. (Windows infection it came with was wiped.) 

My below distro test computer which used to run Linux Lite was custom built for Linux in 2008.
Processor: Intel Atom CPU [email protected]    HDD: 500GB  RAM: 2 GB  Graphics: Integrated  Architecture: ci686  CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit  Seagate ST3500320AS

I also still have an Apple iMac PPC G5 Desktop with 20 M9250LLA 180 GHz which my wife uses for her e-mail and i Photo.
I have a second test computer Dell Dimension which was given to me which is 32 bit. I have no idea how old it is.

[justme2]

[member=296]justme2[/member] gained a level in Necromancy after successfully reviving an almost two year old thread!

Cheers!

I knew the age of the thread, but the information is very relevant to 2018 - owners of eeePC 701 and 901 now know that the latest release 3.8 of LL runs fine on those machines. 

[Artim]

[member=14]Coastie[/member] I have an old Dell Dimension too!  Hand-me-down, 512 RAM, Celeron processor.  It's running AntiX fast and flawless.  Even LXLE became slow and halting on it.

[ptyerman]

I successfully ran Antix on a old socket 7 AMD K6-2 500Mhz with 128Mb RAM! It ran fine and was useable too, I put a second 3.2Gb hard drive in it to use exclusively as swap which aided the low memory situation.
It was a few years ago but it wouldn't surprise me if Antix still ran on such a machine.

[Coastie]

[member=14]Coastie[/member] I have an old Dell Dimension too!  Hand-me-down, 512 RAM, Celeron processor.  It's running AntiX fast and flawless.  Even LXLE became slow and halting on it.

The old Dell is kinda a dust collector. I never liked for the DE on AntiX but MEPIS MX is probably my second favorite distro after LL. Partially because MEPIS 11 was my first attempt at trying Linux. Unfortunately, I got talked into moving to FEDORA. That was a big mistake and scared me away from Linux for several years. 

[newtusmaximus]

Interesting to see life breathed into this old thread.
Given the pending demise of LL 32bit in LL4.X onwards, what advice will we give to New(ish) convertees to linux in the future.  LL3.8 32bit , according to development roadmap, is scheduled to be supported until end first quarter 2021?  Believe  LL2.8 32bit is nearing its end of support  in circa 12 months.. (April 2019 ??)


So question  what to do for linux newbies - to help them through the transition , so they get confident to grow into another 32 bit distro later on?    LL community  becomes a Linux kindergarten?

My old Tosh A10  struggled with LL3.0 32bit whilst was happy with LL2.8 32 bit.  Ran much smoother with a debian distro (Point Linux - now dead).
Eventually sold it to someone who wanted to use XP!!  Hopefully it is still running somewhere

[ptyerman]

Yeah, 32 bit across the board is been killed off far too prematurely I think. It still has a massive base in the embedded market and also in the developing countries. Problem is, when the mother base distro such as Ubuntu, Fedora and such like stop supporting it, all distro's based of them have to stop too!
Fortunately there's some independents out there like Puppy Linux that will probably carry on 32 bit for a good many years yet.
Like many others, I build, repair and use old systems, to watch the dwindling support is saddening.

[newtusmaximus]

I personally never found Puppy L easy to understand; The PET system.  OK for browsing  webmail etc but for nothing serious.
That is why LL is a delight.  Intuitive, minimal terminal needed, and great forum.  All this will be lost to newbies and I fear that other distros will be too "complicated" for them to transition.

Would love to see a LL debian fork for 32 bit. i.e LL helping hand continuing.  . Personally trying MX17 , but not as intuitive as LL I am afraid..  Will have to persevere and the Fuji is in far too good a condition to consign to the scrap heap.  Probably outlast me

[ptyerman]

Puppy is great once you spend some time with it, the PET system is more akin to the Windows way of doing things than anything else out there in Linux land! Think of Flatpack or Snap or any of the other recent package systems for Linux, Puppy has had PET for years, download, double click on it and it installs, simple.
Puppy is different though, and probably not suited to everyone. I prefer the older releases, up to and including version 4, wasn't keen on the idea or implementation after 4 when it started been based on Ubuntu and Slackware. It's a great OS for old systems and has served me quite well as a rescue system too, more than once.
There's also Quirky Linux now which is more like the old Puppy, plus it's developed by the original Puppy developer Barry Kauler.

[m654321]

What year is my computer?
See signature below for our household's setups.