laptop

[chilly]

Had a good day today,went on the local secondhand market and found a laptop for £25 uk.
advent 7095
celeron m 370 1.5 ghz
60 gig hd
512ddr upgradable to 1 gig
integrated sis graphics
All in working order,battery time is only an hour.
Plays dvds and flash very well with xp
Now the xp is going to be wiped,my question is ....
What flavor PClinuxOS?

[thorper]

I would go with lxde which should run like a dream on that spec of machine.

[chilly]

Thanks,i was thinking to go with a lighter version instead of full kde.
I have a few things to do with it yet,i'm going to strip it down and check cpu fan ect.
It has had a new keyboard fitted by some idiot,its bouncing all over the place,mic and headphone sockets don't work and a lot of screws are missing.
For the money it is a good buy and will be better when i have stripped it and rebuilt,also upgrade mem to 1 gig.i am surprised how fast it is considering its a celeron.

[Yankee]

I would go with lxde which should run like a dream on that spec of machine.

+1, upgrade to 1 GB ram if you can.     Look at my specs  below (LXDE).

[µT6]

yes to the 1 gb of ram and kde4 32 bit or xfce, lxde is nice too

the problem i see is the sis card, you know that only intel, nvidia and amd has a reasonable support under linux, some sis work decently but others are a pita

[jimwilk]

I am running LXDE on this Asus Pro59LE laptop. It runs very well indeed.

Jim

[chilly]

The integrated sis might be a prob µT6,i have booted an old live tinyme and it looked ok,will download lxde after i have finished refurbishing.

I am running LXDE on this Asus Pro59LE laptop. It runs very well indeed.

And so it should,that's nice kit you got,hope your bro's ok jim.

[µT6]

then it is a friendly model, good purchase 

[bicol_willem]

Had a good day today,went on the local secondhand market and found a laptop for £25 uk.
advent 7095
celeron m 370 1.5 ghz
60 gig hd
512ddr upgradable to 1 gig
integrated sis graphics
All in working order,battery time is only an hour.
Plays dvds and flash very well with xp
Now the xp is going to be wiped,my question is ....
What flavor PClinuxOS?

Update memory and go for KDE is what I would do ...  (IF memory still can be found and is affordable)

[chilly]

(IF memory still can be found and is affordable)

I can get mem of ebay,a bit pricy,might try lxde first

I am enjoying this laptop,first laptop i have ever had,when i booted it was password protected so i f8 to safemode and wiped out admin user and then got full access to xp, then used system recovery by advent(on the harddrive)and now it is a brand new install xp.It is still going to be wiped after i have finished refurb and playing with it

[chilly]

I am slightly confused,i have tried full kde and minime and both do not work,i end up with a black screen and just the mouse pointer working,however,lxde works perfectly.

[menotu]

Another one to consider is RazorQT - it's lightweight and attractive.

[chilly]

Thanks menotu,will have a look and maybe give it a try although i'd rather stick with pclinuxos based os's.
Just waiting for a new battery,then i'm good to go. 

[agmg]

Thanks menotu,will have a look and maybe give it a try although i'd rather stick with pclinuxos based os's.
Just waiting for a new battery,then i'm good to go.  

Razor-Qt is just another desktop environment like KDE, LXDE or Xfce
It can be installed on any version of PCLinuxOS...

Well, not really, not at the moment, because currently it is broken.
But it will soon

[chilly]

  being a diehard KDE user i have not gone into other DE's so now is the time to have a look because this little laptop will gain with a lighter DE rather than KDE.
Thanks for that agmg,i was thinking razor was another OS.