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Robin
Hello people,
I just want to say “thank you” for this really great Linux-distribution! My (in my terms) not so very old laptop (about 15 years) was urgently in need for a new operating system, since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS wouldn’t have let me upgrade anymore to the next LTS. This is more than a year ago, and I had only left little spare time to find a good solution. I looked around… searched… tested. Nothing was convincing on this machine. All went as slow, as if it was a 80386-based computer and not a 1,4GHz machine. They don’t seem to bother about efficient and slender code anymore, in times of rapid and constantly increasing size and speed of new hardware. And then, finally I got what I was looking for: antiX. I coincide with its way of keeping things simple as possible, nevertheless cute and well designed. I really dislike the “modern” attitude, to replace everything which is older than 2 years without any really good reason, but I was nearly arrived at the point to give way the idea of not being able to find a secure and at the same time convenient system for my old but fast equipment. This changed the moment antiX came to my attention. Thank you very much again!
Originally this notebook was shipped with Windows XP, and as long as it got regular updates from the manufacturer there was no reason to raise difficulties by changing anything profoundly (“never touch a …”). Then I switched to sidux, and most things worked. But it was rather time-consuming to manage, often something stopped working all of a sudden and since I have to use this notebook and not to play around with re-installing previously well-oiled things after they got broken by an update… I changed to Ubuntu, expecting a long period of time without the need of reinstalling something. But this was a great mistake. They told me, not even two years later, on the upgrade-screen, that my Machine wouldn’t met the requirements any longer for the upgrade. So I had to stay with the insecure outdated system for a quite long time. Not one of the better feelings, this…So here’s the technical part of the story. I’m going to tell it in detail, since it might help other users to sail around some problems I encountered while setting up the system.
It is a RIM 2000, with an Intel 915 Pentium M processor at 1,7 GHz, 2GB RAM and 100GB HDD, Nvidia Go6600 Graphics, 1440×900 Screen, built in the early 2k-years (2005 I believe). It has internal Bluetooth, IrDA, built-in TV-card, surround audio-out, headphones, line-in, microphone-in, s-video in and out, external monitor SUB-D-connector, internal speakers, DVD-burner, firewire and internal phone-line modem, SD-card reader, and PCMCIA-slot.
The realy great thing is: All the standard functionality worked out of the box in – and that’s the drop of bitterness – in antiX 17.4, not in the actual antiX 19.1. It is some months ago when I first started the migration to antiX, and so the recent “Manolis Glezos” wasn’t out yet. I’ll give it a try again in the next few months. There was literaly no way to get antiX 19.1 to boot (double-checked the ISOs with its sha-sums). After using some bootcodes I ended up on a washy and blurry desktop, and the system perseveringly refused to accept the correct graphics-settings for my screen. And no Nvidia-drivers around to mend it. So I went back to antiX 17.4.1, which started up perfectly. Checked: Graphics (using noveau): OK. Keyboard OK. Wireless: OK. Sound OK. So I made an USB-stick in order not to touch the installed system until I had checked the rest of its features. Your USB-technique is great, I just write from the live-persistent system, fully configured. Soon it will be installed on the hard-drive finally.I’ll call it a day for now. But I’ll try to continue my writing here for interested people, what I experienced while making things work in detail, configuring, updating, installing the meltdown/spectre-kernel and so on. I have some special needs, which had to work on the notebook: – musical notation – and MIDI. Let my say so much: It works like a charm in antiX.
Yours
RobinPS: I apologize for some strange inflexions, I’m not a native speaker in English language.
- This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Robin. Reason: orthography
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BobC
Watch to see if a 17.5 release comes out. It sounds like yours is one of the machines that would really benefit from it. It should have much of the fresher software found in 19.3 but still have compatibility for machines with video like yours.
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