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I recently was looking for the perfect Linux distro for a 15 year old HP Pavilion dv1000 (dv1240us) that I upgraded the ram from 1GB to 1.5GB on, has a Intel Pentium M 735 (the one that has PAE support but doesn’t show it in the flags!) and currently a 40GB HDD. Soon to be upgraded to an SSD, through an mSATA to IDE adapter, plus the special adapter this computer needs. Since it has no PAE flag, I can’t install much. Then I found antiX. AntiX was the SOLUTION! Now it’s very fast when web browsing with Firefox and playing my archived iTunes music library. I also use Pale Moon a lot but I also have to use Firefox because of DRM when I want to play some music from Spotify. I’ve taken it apart many times. I saved this computer from a thrift store for $5, plus a charger from eBay for $11, and a 1GB stick of DDR RAM from eBay for $15, plus a $6 mSATA to IDE adapter. Haven’t yet gotten an mSATA SSD for it yet.
TL;DR: antiX works great on even 15 year old computers!
Very happy with it!
Still need to get a Wi-Fi adapter. For now I’ll just connect via Ethernet.
Main laptop, dual booting Win10 and Ubuntu specs: ASUS E203NAS-YS03
Main desktop, soon to be upgraded, currently running Ubuntu specs: Dell Optiplex 3010, Intel Core i3-3220, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD.
15 year old antiX laptop, previously running Windows 7 specs:
anticapitalista
Nice story! Welcome to antiX!
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
Xecure
antiX is great to give new life to old “abandoned” hardware.
Welcome and enjoy your stay with antiX!
antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.
fatmac
Welcome aboard. 🙂
Good to know that another old laptop has been saved from landfill. 😉
Linux (& BSD) since 1999
Brian Masinick
I love these old computer resurrection stories; I think I’ve written a few in my day too, but I’ll say more again about three of my latest “cast off” collectibles in the near future; meanwhile a “teaser”: among THREE “throw out” computers that I saved from my brother in law’s would be “send to the dump collection, I got two HP models and a VERY GOOD Lenovo (ex IBM) Thinkpad X201 – that model, no matter how old or “tank-like” in construction it may be, it’s every bit as good (maybe BETTER in some respects) than the solid Dell Inspiron 5558 that I am using at this very moment – truly a great one to SAVE from the recycle bin!
Glad to have you with us, enjoying antiX with hardware that OTHER people retire, but we continue to use – many of which are in their second or third DECADE of use! Great contribution!
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Brian Masinick
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