Oh why hello thereee!

[Member anarchy_79]

Hey guys!

stumbled upon your distribution while trying to get use out of a 12 year old Compaq Presario CQ-60, boasting a MONSTER single core Intel Celeron 900 processor and a whopping 2GB of RAM. I doubt it even ran Windows Vista smoothly back then. l0l

I got it from a guy when he saw my eyes tear up from nostalgia, as I remembered the design from the Compaq Mini 110c netbook, the best goddamn little compwuter I have ever owned with the exception for a Commodore 64…

I miss those netbooks so much.. Damn, look at it! JUST LOOK AT IT!

I want to kiss it softly and whisper sweet seductions into its ports…

YEAH SO ANYWAY, I took a quick glance at the forums and took an instant liking to the people here and the ideals that clearly underpin your project. You have my genuine respect and appreciation.

I think I’ll hang around a bit, I don’t have anywhere else to go on the internet anyway, it’s all gone to shit…

Peace

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Welcome to the forum! Antix should do well on that netbook.

AntiX, Lilidog, PCLinuxOS, Mabox, SparkyLinux, Bodhi

[Member alpage2]

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Welcome to the forums.

As you have no doubt discovered, antiX is great for reviving old hardware. I have it on an old winXP netbook, 3 vista laptops and a Win7 mini-tower – I am truly blessed 🙂

Alan

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anarchy_79 wrote:

the best goddamn little computer I have ever owned with the exception for a Commodore 64…

Agreed! I’ve been playing with the idea of buying a Commodore 64 to recap, etc. Wish I had not sold it to buy an A500. :*(

Welcome to antiX!

[Member anarchy_79]

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techore wrote:

Agreed! I’ve been playing with the idea of buying a Commodore 64 to recap, etc. Wish I had not sold it to buy an A500. :*(

Welcome to antiX!

Thanks! And yeah, there is something magical about the C64. I was lucky enough to have had both the Commodore and then the A500, both truly inspired machines…

And as for antiX running on the Presario I got, HOLY SHIT. I’m still funking around with the Live version, and *everything* worked instantly out of the box, and SO DAMNED FAST! I distro hopped a lot to find a perfect match for this hardware, so went through Bunsenlabs, Puppy, MATE, Lubuntu, Xubuntu and some others. While some of them worked better than others, they all ran more or less like molasses, all had minor and\or major hardware issues, and in a few cases broke down completely after a while, forcing a new install.

It’s only been a few hours but I’m loving antiX so far, you can tell that a lot of thought and wise decisions went into it.

All right, take it ease, guyz!

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~~ everybody do as I say and nobody gets hurt.
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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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@anarchy_79: Welcome to the antiX Forum. I am very happy to read that antiX is already working out well for you. Best wishes always.

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Ran Puppy inside of Windows 7 on my cq-57 laptop. Back when I was tuning motorcycles.

# inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 3.10.32 i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.7.1) 
           Desktop: JWM git-905 
           Distro: Slacko Puppy Linux Linux 3.10.32 [ arch] 
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: Presario CQ57 Notebook PC v: 068C110003204910000620100
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3577 v: 24.48
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: F.42 date: 11/07/2011
CPU:       Dual core AMD C-50 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 3993 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1000 MHz 2: 1000 MHz
Graphics:  Card: ATI Device 9804 bus-ID: 00:01.0
           Display Server: X.org 1.12.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: vesa)
           tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio:     Card ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) 
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.10.32
Network:   Card-1: Ralink Device 5390
           driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 bus-ID: 07:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (23.8% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2500BEVT size: 250.1GB
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 61.4C mobo: N/A gpu: 62.0 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 98 Uptime: 2:37 Memory: 285.4/1623.5MB 
           Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.7.1

https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=61404

Howdy and Welcome

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anarchy_79 wrote:

Hey guys!
stumbled upon your distribution while trying to get use out of a 12 year old Compaq Presario CQ-60, boasting a MONSTER single core Intel Celeron 900 processor and a whopping 2GB of RAM. I doubt it even ran Windows Vista smoothly back then. l0l

Did any computer ever actually run ‘Win-Doze’ Vista smoothly? (I doubt it; that OS is one of the reasons I switched to Linux years ago)

I found antiX is an excellent way to get more life out of an older machine. antiX works a treat on both my Lenovo Thinkpad T430s and Samsung N150 netbook.

What have the Romans ever done for us?
Apart from: sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, fresh water, and public health?

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I bought an eee pc 1015bx in 2012. It came with Win 7 “starter edition”. It was completely unusable, so slow! It made me discover linux, thats about the only good thing I can say about windows.

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Hello anarchy_79.

Welcome to antiX Linux and the forum.

I don’t know how to write in English and I send my texts translated by the internet translator. I hope you can understand everything, if your native language is not English, please translate my original Brazilian Portuguese text directly into your language with the help of internet translators.

Regardless of your level of knowledge about GNU/Linux, I recommend you read these excellent tutorials created by @PPC:

What is antiX and how to try it out or install it.
Short essential how-to list for the complete Linux newbie.
How-to install applications – 2020 version.
How to: correctly use antiX forum.

When I first started using antiX, I read the tutorials that PPC created, these readings saved me a lot of time and I think it saves time for any new antiX user. Your time will not be wasted with these readings, everything will seem to be much easier than you could imagine. You won’t waste your time searching the internet or even creating new topics, on the contrary, you will gain a lot of time with these readings.

I recommend you try out desktops that have “zzz” in their name. I usually use zzz-IceWM or zzz-JWM or zzz-Fluxbox (each of these desktops has its own characteristics and consumes more or less resources), zzzFM will be the default file manager for your desktop, it it is very similar to the other file managers of other GNU/Linux distributions and Windows XP. To access other antiX workspaces, click on Menu, Desktop, Other Desktops and click on the workspace name, instantly the workspace will be loaded.

Whenever you need to ask for help or technical support in this forum, please explain in detail what is happening, don’t mince words, be thorough when writing, tell your computer characteristics such as make and model. If possible, post the result of the command $ inxi -Fxz from the terminal, copy and paste here in the message of the topic that you are going to create in this forum.

When you start a topic or participate with a post, remember to check the option “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”, by checking this option, you will receive a message in your email box whenever there are replies from topic in question.

marcelocripe
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Olá anarchy_79.

Seja bem-vindo(a) ao antiX Linux e ao fórum.

Eu não sei escrever em idioma Inglês e envio os meus textos traduzidos pelo tradutor da internet. Eu espero que você consiga compreender tudo, caso o seu idioma nativo não seja o Inglês, por favor, traduza o meu texto original em idioma Português do Brasil diretamente para o seu idioma com a ajuda dos tradutores da internet.

Independentemente do seu nível de conhecimento sobre GNU/Linux, eu recomendo você ler estes excelentes tutoriais criados pelo @PPC:

What is antiX and how to try it out or install it.
Short essential how-to list for the complete Linux newbie.
How-to install applications – 2020 version.
How to: correctly use antiX forum.

Quando eu comecei a utilizar o antiX, eu li os tutoriais que o PPC criou, estas leituras me pouparam muito do meu tempo e acho que poupa o tempo de qualquer novo usuário do antiX. O seu tempo não será perdido com estas leituras, tudo parecerá ser muito mais fácil do que você poderia imaginar. Você não perderá o seu tempo com pesquisas na internet ou até mesmo em criar novos tópicos, ao contrário, você ganhará muito tempo com estas leituras.

Eu recomendo você experimentar as áreas de trabalho que possuem “zzz” em seu nome. Eu costumo utilizar o zzz-IceWM ou zzz-JWM ou zzz-Fluxbox (cada uma destas áreas de trabalho possuem características próprias e consomem mais ou menos recursos), o zzzFM será o gerenciador de arquivos padrão da sua área de trabalho, ele é muito semelhante aos outros gerenciadores de arquivos das outras distribuições GNU/Linux e do Windows XP. Para acessar as outras áreas de trabalho do antiX, clique no Menu, Área de Trabalho, Alternar Entre as Áreas de Trabalho e clique sobre o nome da área de trabalho, instantaneamente a área de trabalho será carregada.

Sempre que você precisar solicitar ajuda ou suporte técnico neste fórum, explique com detalhes o que está acontecendo, não economize as palavras, seja minucioso ao escrever, informe as características do seu computador, como a marca e o modelo. Se for possível, poste o resultado do comando $ inxi -Fxz do terminal, copie e cole aqui na mensagem do tópico que você for criar neste fórum.

Quando você iniciar algum tópico ou participar com alguma postagem, lembre-se de marcar a opção “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”, marcando esta opção, você receberá uma mensagem na sua caixa de e-mail sempre que houver respostas do tópico em questão.

marcelocripe
(Texto original em idioma Português do Brasil)

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Hello anarchy_79,

bones and skull, waouh !

welcome here with nice people to help as much as humanly possible.

Anarchically 🙂

Vive antiX !
Vive le Groland !

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Had to laugh regarding EEPC, I bought one from a company technician a few years ago for 45 Euro.
he bragged around about me being stupid. It is now fitted with an SSD and 2GB mem. And the awful
Broadcom WIFI card replaced. I Hate! the crap that awful company produced.
case Glued together with superglue and baking powder.
Runs plenty fast enough for everyday use with antiX 21 and ICEWM.

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ModdIt wrote:

he bragged around about me being stupid.

He has a narrow.. little mind.. you on the other hand are a good custodian of the planet!

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