Hello from an old Toshiba Satellite, Mexico

[Member Harold96]

This was my first laptop ever, my mom bought it in 2008 for me, we use to share an old desktop machine as a family, but this was my very first computer and I really loved it.
One day the display stopped working, only the VGA port was working, so I could not keep using it, also it was already showing signs of an old laptop, was pretty slow and the computers from that time (2012) were much better, so it was time to say goodbye to an old veteran, I loved this computer so I kept it.
Not so much ago, I started to use Manjaro Linux as my daily driver, so I started to love Linux. One day I was cleaning my room, and I found this laptop, it has been a long time, so I never actually thought that it will work, I plugged the charger and turned it on, and for my surprise it was working.
I started looking for a linux distro that could be good for this veteran laptop, so I came across antix, I have been using it and I totally love it, antix has brought life again to my old friend 🙂

• This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Harold96.

[Member rayluo]

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Hola, amigo!

(That was the few Spanish I can write.)

Yes I totally feel you, Harold. Similar story happens to many people in this forum. AntiX revived my old laptop, and helped me get the most out of it – literally – that laptop stepped down with hardware issue just recently. 🙂

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Welcome, I also have a 2008 Toshiba Satellite Pro with our favourite distro on it.

Linux (& BSD) since 1999

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Harold96 wrote:

This was my first laptop ever, my mom bought it in 2008 for me, we use to share an old desktop machine as a family, but this was my very first computer and I really loved it.
One day the display stopped working, only the VGA port was working, so I could not keep using it, also it was already showing signs of an old laptop, was pretty slow and the computers from that time (2012) were much better, so it was time to say goodbye to an old veteran, I loved this computer so I kept it.
Not so much ago, I started to use Manjaro Linux as my daily driver, so I started to love Linux. One day I was cleaning my room, and I found this laptop, it has been a long time, so I never actually thought that it will work, I plugged the charger and turned it on, and for my surprise it was working.
I started looking for a Linux distro that could be good for this veteran laptop, so I came across antiX, I have been using it and I totally love it, antiX has brought life again to my old friend 🙂 />

Welcome to antiX!

That’s a great story. At this very moment I am using an old desktop computer with a nice, large HP monitor.

Here are the particulars:

inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: antix-Brian Kernel: 5.5.0-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.8.3 
  Distro: antiX-19.1_x64-base Marielle Franco 23 December 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: s5747c v: N/A 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: PEGATRON model: 2A6C v: 5.00 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: 6.01 date: 09/29/2010 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: AMD Athlon II X2 255 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: K10 rev: 3 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm bogomips: 12455 
  Speed: 1900 MHz min/max: 800/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1900 2: 3100 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: N/A bus ID: 00:0d.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: vesa resolution: 1024x768~N/A 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:05.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.5.0-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  type: network bridge driver: forcedeth v: kernel port: e480 
  bus ID: 00:07.0 
  IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Ralink RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe vendor: Lite-On 
  driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlan1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 698.64 GiB used: 15.12 GiB (2.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3750528AS size: 698.64 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 684.67 GiB used: 15.12 GiB (2.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 24.2 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 119 Uptime: 1h 01m Memory: 3.60 GiB used: 1.20 GiB (33.3%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.36 

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Brian Masinick.

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Hi Harold96,

Welcome to antiX Linux.

It is great to share your experience using antiX on your Laptop. If you have other test results you have done on this Laptop using other Linux distributions you can share your experiences at the link: https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/system-requirements-for-antix-and-other-debians/

Remember to check the option “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”, so you will receive a message in your email to inform you when someone replied in the topic you started or that you are participating in the conversations.

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Olá Harold96,

Seja bem vindo ao antiX Linux.

É muito bom você compartilhar a sua experiência no uso do antiX no seu Laptop. Se você tiver outros resultados de testes que você fez neste Laptop utilizando outras distribuições Linux poderá compartilhar a suas experiências no link: https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/system-requirements-for-antix-and-other-debians/

Lembre-se de marcar a opção “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”, assim você receberá uma mensagem no seu e-mail para te informar quando alguém respondeu no tópico que você iniciou ou que você esteja participando das conversas.

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