On Mar 13, 2020, at 9:05 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:

Super - thanks Rex and Devi!

On Mar 13, 2020, at 9:05 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:

Super - thanks Rex and Devi!

Best Regards,

Lee 

Sent from my IPhone 8 Plus - please excuse typos.




> On Mar 13, 2020, at 7:59 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:
> 
> I used to have a similar netbook.  Mine was an ASUS with the Atom processor with 1 GB of RAM.  I did run Lubuntu on it as well as Bodhi Linux.  Neither is very resource intensive.  Lubuntu 18.04 and Bodhi 5.0 still have 32 bit versions.  Another distro that will probably run on it is Trisquel 8.0 mini.  It also still has a 32 bit version.  You could try all three and see which you prefer.
> Rex
> 
>>>> On 3/13/20 7:47 PM, Lee Ilse wrote:
>> Folks,
>>  I may have asked this question years ago, but I can’t find a response so please accept my apologies in advance if this is a double-tap:
>> I have an ancient netbook (Dell Mini-9 with an Atom N270 CPU) that originally had only 1G of RAM and an 8G SSD.  I later upgraded it to 2G RAM and a 32G SSD and ran Windows XP on it for a few years. But it has sat on a shelf unused since XP extended support ended 6 years ago.  Is there a Linux release that will run on this platform?  Or would attempting this just be a a frustrating learning experience?
>>  I would like to get familiar with the OS again (I loaded a version of Red Hat about 20 years ago but never did much with it).  I plan to retire within the next year and will then be free to cut the (Army) Windows cord.   This experiment would be just dipping my toe in the water again before jumping in with both feet.    I just am not in position to experiment with either of my other computers  at this point (I got rid of my other ancient hardware last year during spring cleaning - this one just was hidden away and was missed).
>>  Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>> Best Regards,
>> Lee
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On Mar 13, 2020, at 9:05 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:

Super - thanks Rex and Devi!

On Mar 13, 2020, at 9:05 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:

Super - thanks Rex and Devi!

Best Regards,

Lee 

Sent from my IPhone 8 Plus - please excuse typos.




> On Mar 13, 2020, at 7:59 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:
> 
> I used to have a similar netbook.  Mine was an ASUS with the Atom processor with 1 GB of RAM.  I did run Lubuntu on it as well as Bodhi Linux.  Neither is very resource intensive.  Lubuntu 18.04 and Bodhi 5.0 still have 32 bit versions.  Another distro that will probably run on it is Trisquel 8.0 mini.  It also still has a 32 bit version.  You could try all three and see which you prefer.
> Rex
> 
>>>> On 3/13/20 7:47 PM, Lee Ilse wrote:
>> Folks,
>>  I may have asked this question years ago, but I can’t find a response so please accept my apologies in advance if this is a double-tap:
>> I have an ancient netbook (Dell Mini-9 with an Atom N270 CPU) that originally had only 1G of RAM and an 8G SSD.  I later upgraded it to 2G RAM and a 32G SSD and ran Windows XP on it for a few years. But it has sat on a shelf unused since XP extended support ended 6 years ago.  Is there a Linux release that will run on this platform?  Or would attempting this just be a a frustrating learning experience?
>>  I would like to get familiar with the OS again (I loaded a version of Red Hat about 20 years ago but never did much with it).  I plan to retire within the next year and will then be free to cut the (Army) Windows cord.   This experiment would be just dipping my toe in the water again before jumping in with both feet.    I just am not in position to experiment with either of my other computers  at this point (I got rid of my other ancient hardware last year during spring cleaning - this one just was hidden away and was missed).
>>  Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>> Best Regards,
>> Lee
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Slow speed was more then likely the usb drive and usb port speed slowing down the loading times.. since it was decompressing and loading everything on the fly on boot.. once you install it on the PC should load a bit faster and shouldn’t take minutes to load. Welcome to the land of open source and some would say freedom.

Downloaded Lubuntu 18.04  yesterday and made a bootable thumb drive using Rufus this afternoon.  This evening I was able to boot Lubuntu from the stick and test drive the OS on the Mini-9.  It did take a couple minutes to load from the stick - I’m not sure if this was because of the ancient CPU or the rather slow USB 2.0 port. But it looks good and ran the word processor and Firefox OK - so tomorrow I will load it on the SSD drive and that should boot quite a bit faster.   Thanks again guys!

Best Regards,

Lee

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 9:05 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:

>

> Super - thanks Rex and Devi!

>

> Best Regards,

>

> Lee

>

> Sent from my IPhone 8 Plus - please excuse typos.

>

>

>

>

>> On Mar 13, 2020, at 7:59 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

>>

>> I used to have a similar netbook.  Mine was an ASUS with the Atom processor with 1 GB of RAM.  I did run Lubuntu on it as well as Bodhi Linux.  Neither is very resource intensive.  Lubuntu 18.04 and Bodhi 5.0 still have 32 bit versions.  Another distro that will probably run on it is Trisquel 8.0 mini.  It also still has a 32 bit version.  You could try all three and see which you prefer.

>> Rex

>>

>>>>> On 3/13/20 7:47 PM, Lee Ilse wrote:

>>> Folks,

>>>  I may have asked this question years ago, but I can’t find a response so please accept my apologies in advance if this is a double-tap:

>>> I have an ancient netbook (Dell Mini-9 with an Atom N270 CPU) that originally had only 1G of RAM and an 8G SSD.  I later upgraded it to 2G RAM and a 32G SSD and ran Windows XP on it for a few years. But it has sat on a shelf unused since XP extended support ended 6 years ago.  Is there a Linux release that will run on this platform?  Or would attempting this just be a a frustrating learning experience?

>>>  I would like to get familiar with the OS again (I loaded a version of Red Hat about 20 years ago but never did much with it).  I plan to retire within the next year and will then be free to cut the (Army) Windows cord.   This experiment would be just dipping my toe in the water again before jumping in with both feet.    I just am not in position to experiment with either of my other computers  at this point (I got rid of my other ancient hardware last year during spring cleaning - this one just was hidden away and was missed).

>>>  Thanks in advance for any pointers.

>>> Best Regards,

>>> Lee

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Slow speed was more then likely the usb drive and usb port speed slowing down the loading times.. since it was decompressing and loading everything on the fly on boot.. once you install it on the PC should load a bit faster and shouldn’t take minutes to load. Welcome to the land of open source and some would say freedom.

 

From: Lee Ilse
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2020 7:52 PM
To: cochiselinux@freelists.org
Subject: [cochiselinux] Another Noob Tests The Water

 

Downloaded Lubuntu 18.04  yesterday and made a bootable thumb drive using Rufus this afternoon.  This evening I was able to boot Lubuntu from the stick and test drive the OS on the Mini-9.  It did take a couple minutes to load from the stick - I’m not sure if this was because of the ancient CPU or the rather slow USB 2.0 port. But it looks good and ran the word processor and Firefox OK - so tomorrow I will load it on the SSD drive and that should boot quite a bit faster.   Thanks again guys!

 

Best Regards,

 

Lee

 

 

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 9:05 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:

>

> Super - thanks Rex and Devi!

>

> Best Regards,

>

> Lee

>

> Sent from my IPhone 8 Plus - please excuse typos.

>

>

>

>

>> On Mar 13, 2020, at 7:59 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

>>

>> I used to have a similar netbook.  Mine was an ASUS with the Atom processor with 1 GB of RAM.  I did run Lubuntu on it as well as Bodhi Linux.  Neither is very resource intensive.  Lubuntu 18.04 and Bodhi 5.0 still have 32 bit versions.  Another distro that will probably run on it is Trisquel 8.0 mini.  It also still has a 32 bit version.  You could try all three and see which you prefer.

>> Rex

>>

>>>>> On 3/13/20 7:47 PM, Lee Ilse wrote:

>>> Folks,

>>>  I may have asked this question years ago, but I can’t find a response so please accept my apologies in advance if this is a double-tap:

>>> I have an ancient netbook (Dell Mini-9 with an Atom N270 CPU) that originally had only 1G of RAM and an 8G SSD.  I later upgraded it to 2G RAM and a 32G SSD and ran Windows XP on it for a few years. But it has sat on a shelf unused since XP extended support ended 6 years ago.  Is there a Linux release that will run on this platform?  Or would attempting this just be a a frustrating learning experience?

>>>  I would like to get familiar with the OS again (I loaded a version of Red Hat about 20 years ago but never did much with it).  I plan to retire within the next year and will then be free to cut the (Army) Windows cord.   This experiment would be just dipping my toe in the water again before jumping in with both feet.    I just am not in position to experiment with either of my other computers  at this point (I got rid of my other ancient hardware last year during spring cleaning - this one just was hidden away and was missed).

>>>  Thanks in advance for any pointers.

>>> Best Regards,

>>> Lee

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On Mar 16, 2020, at 8:14 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:
Yup - now opens within 35 seconds from cold start (and about 10s of that is just to get through the bios)!  :-)
Now if I can just get the WiFi to work...

Yup - now opens within 35 seconds from cold start (and about 10s of that is just to get through the bios)!  :-)

Now if I can just get the WiFi to work...

Best Regards,

Lee 

Sent from my IPhone 8 Plus - please excuse typos.

On Mar 15, 2020, at 8:08 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

 Welcome aboard (again).  Any time you boot into the live mode from a USB flash drive, it will be slower as David has stated.  You will notice an increase in speed after installation.  Because Lubuntu has Abiword as the default word processor, I always would install LibreOffice because I needed the extras.  You may not need them.  Starting with 19.04 Lubuntu moved to the LXQT desktop and deleted the 32 bit version.  No worry though, 18.04 is supported until April 2021.
Rex

On 3/15/20 7:57 PM, David Garcia wrote:

Slow speed was more then likely the usb drive and usb port speed slowing down the loading times.. since it was decompressing and loading everything on the fly on boot.. once you install it on the PC should load a bit faster and shouldn’t take minutes to load. Welcome to the land of open source and some would say freedom.

 

From: Lee Ilse
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2020 7:52 PM
To: cochiselinux@freelists.org
Subject: [cochiselinux] Another Noob Tests The Water

 

Downloaded Lubuntu 18.04  yesterday and made a bootable thumb drive using Rufus this afternoon.  This evening I was able to boot Lubuntu from the stick and test drive the OS on the Mini-9.  It did take a couple minutes to load from the stick - I’m not sure if this was because of the ancient CPU or the rather slow USB 2.0 port. But it looks good and ran the word processor and Firefox OK - so tomorrow I will load it on the SSD drive and that should boot quite a bit faster.   Thanks again guys!

 

Best Regards,

 

Lee

 

 

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 9:05 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:

>

> Super - thanks Rex and Devi!

>

> Best Regards,

>

> Lee

>

> Sent from my IPhone 8 Plus - please excuse typos.

>

>

>

>

>> On Mar 13, 2020, at 7:59 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

>>

>> I used to have a similar netbook.  Mine was an ASUS with the Atom processor with 1 GB of RAM.  I did run Lubuntu on it as well as Bodhi Linux.  Neither is very resource intensive.  Lubuntu 18.04 and Bodhi 5.0 still have 32 bit versions.  Another distro that will probably run on it is Trisquel 8.0 mini.  It also still has a 32 bit version.  You could try all three and see which you prefer.

>> Rex

>>

>>>>> On 3/13/20 7:47 PM, Lee Ilse wrote:

>>> Folks,

>>>  I may have asked this question years ago, but I can’t find a response so please accept my apologies in advance if this is a double-tap:

>>> I have an ancient netbook (Dell Mini-9 with an Atom N270 CPU) that originally had only 1G of RAM and an 8G SSD.  I later upgraded it to 2G RAM and a 32G SSD and ran Windows XP on it for a few years. But it has sat on a shelf unused since XP extended support ended 6 years ago.  Is there a Linux release that will run on this platform?  Or would attempting this just be a a frustrating learning experience?

>>>  I would like to get familiar with the OS again (I loaded a version of Red Hat about 20 years ago but never did much with it).  I plan to retire within the next year and will then be free to cut the (Army) Windows cord.   This experiment would be just dipping my toe in the water again before jumping in with both feet.    I just am not in position to experiment with either of my other computers  at this point (I got rid of my other ancient hardware last year during spring cleaning - this one just was hidden away and was missed).

>>>  Thanks in advance for any pointers.

>>> Best Regards,

>>> Lee

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On Mar 16, 2020, at 8:20 PM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:
 Given that’s it’s an older machine and you installed the 18.x version of Lubuntu your going to have to find out what kind of WiFi card your laptop has and basically build the module yourself as most older chipsets are no longer shipped in newer kernels .
So In windows terms you basically need to find the WiFi card and find the Linux drivers you need to make it work.



Given that’s it’s an older machine and you installed the 18.x version of Lubuntu your going to have to find out what kind of WiFi card your laptop has and basically build the module yourself as most older chipsets are no longer shipped in newer kernels .

So In windows terms you basically need to find the WiFi card and find the Linux drivers you need to make it work.

On Mar 16, 2020, at 8:14 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:

Yup - now opens within 35 seconds from cold start (and about 10s of that is just to get through the bios)!  :-)

Now if I can just get the WiFi to work...

Best Regards,

Lee 

Sent from my IPhone 8 Plus - please excuse typos.

On Mar 15, 2020, at 8:08 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

 Welcome aboard (again).  Any time you boot into the live mode from a USB flash drive, it will be slower as David has stated.  You will notice an increase in speed after installation.  Because Lubuntu has Abiword as the default word processor, I always would install LibreOffice because I needed the extras.  You may not need them.  Starting with 19.04 Lubuntu moved to the LXQT desktop and deleted the 32 bit version.  No worry though, 18.04 is supported until April 2021.
Rex

On 3/15/20 7:57 PM, David Garcia wrote:

Slow speed was more then likely the usb drive and usb port speed slowing down the loading times.. since it was decompressing and loading everything on the fly on boot.. once you install it on the PC should load a bit faster and shouldn’t take minutes to load. Welcome to the land of open source and some would say freedom.

 

From: Lee Ilse
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2020 7:52 PM
To: cochiselinux@freelists.org
Subject: [cochiselinux] Another Noob Tests The Water

 

Downloaded Lubuntu 18.04  yesterday and made a bootable thumb drive using Rufus this afternoon.  This evening I was able to boot Lubuntu from the stick and test drive the OS on the Mini-9.  It did take a couple minutes to load from the stick - I’m not sure if this was because of the ancient CPU or the rather slow USB 2.0 port. But it looks good and ran the word processor and Firefox OK - so tomorrow I will load it on the SSD drive and that should boot quite a bit faster.   Thanks again guys!

 

Best Regards,

 

Lee

 

 

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 9:05 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:

>

> Super - thanks Rex and Devi!

>

> Best Regards,

>

> Lee

>

> Sent from my IPhone 8 Plus - please excuse typos.

>

>

>

>

>> On Mar 13, 2020, at 7:59 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

>>

>> I used to have a similar netbook.  Mine was an ASUS with the Atom processor with 1 GB of RAM.  I did run Lubuntu on it as well as Bodhi Linux.  Neither is very resource intensive.  Lubuntu 18.04 and Bodhi 5.0 still have 32 bit versions.  Another distro that will probably run on it is Trisquel 8.0 mini.  It also still has a 32 bit version.  You could try all three and see which you prefer.

>> Rex

>>

>>>>> On 3/13/20 7:47 PM, Lee Ilse wrote:

>>> Folks,

>>>  I may have asked this question years ago, but I can’t find a response so please accept my apologies in advance if this is a double-tap:

>>> I have an ancient netbook (Dell Mini-9 with an Atom N270 CPU) that originally had only 1G of RAM and an 8G SSD.  I later upgraded it to 2G RAM and a 32G SSD and ran Windows XP on it for a few years. But it has sat on a shelf unused since XP extended support ended 6 years ago.  Is there a Linux release that will run on this platform?  Or would attempting this just be a a frustrating learning experience?

>>>  I would like to get familiar with the OS again (I loaded a version of Red Hat about 20 years ago but never did much with it).  I plan to retire within the next year and will then be free to cut the (Army) Windows cord.   This experiment would be just dipping my toe in the water again before jumping in with both feet.    I just am not in position to experiment with either of my other computers  at this point (I got rid of my other ancient hardware last year during spring cleaning - this one just was hidden away and was missed).

>>>  Thanks in advance for any pointers.

>>> Best Regards,

>>> Lee

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On Mar 16, 2020, at 8:23 PM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:
 If I remember correctly you said it was a mini 9 netbook so I googled that and here’s a tutorial to get the WiFi working in Ubuntu  https://accidentaltechnologist.com/technology/enabling-wireless-on-a-dell-mini-9-running-ubuntu-9-1-netbook-remix/
On Mar 16, 2020, at 8:20 PM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:



If I remember correctly you said it was a mini 9 netbook so I googled that and here’s a tutorial to get the WiFi working in Ubuntu https://accidentaltechnologist.com/technology/enabling-wireless-on-a-dell-mini-9-running-ubuntu-9-1-netbook-remix/

On Mar 16, 2020, at 8:20 PM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:



Given that’s it’s an older machine and you installed the 18.x version of Lubuntu your going to have to find out what kind of WiFi card your laptop has and basically build the module yourself as most older chipsets are no longer shipped in newer kernels .

So In windows terms you basically need to find the WiFi card and find the Linux drivers you need to make it work.

On Mar 16, 2020, at 8:14 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:

Yup - now opens within 35 seconds from cold start (and about 10s of that is just to get through the bios)!  :-)

Now if I can just get the WiFi to work...

Best Regards,

Lee 

Sent from my IPhone 8 Plus - please excuse typos.

On Mar 15, 2020, at 8:08 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

 Welcome aboard (again).  Any time you boot into the live mode from a USB flash drive, it will be slower as David has stated.  You will notice an increase in speed after installation.  Because Lubuntu has Abiword as the default word processor, I always would install LibreOffice because I needed the extras.  You may not need them.  Starting with 19.04 Lubuntu moved to the LXQT desktop and deleted the 32 bit version.  No worry though, 18.04 is supported until April 2021.
Rex

On 3/15/20 7:57 PM, David Garcia wrote:

Slow speed was more then likely the usb drive and usb port speed slowing down the loading times.. since it was decompressing and loading everything on the fly on boot.. once you install it on the PC should load a bit faster and shouldn’t take minutes to load. Welcome to the land of open source and some would say freedom.

 

From: Lee Ilse
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2020 7:52 PM
To: cochiselinux@freelists.org
Subject: [cochiselinux] Another Noob Tests The Water

 

Downloaded Lubuntu 18.04  yesterday and made a bootable thumb drive using Rufus this afternoon.  This evening I was able to boot Lubuntu from the stick and test drive the OS on the Mini-9.  It did take a couple minutes to load from the stick - I’m not sure if this was because of the ancient CPU or the rather slow USB 2.0 port. But it looks good and ran the word processor and Firefox OK - so tomorrow I will load it on the SSD drive and that should boot quite a bit faster.   Thanks again guys!

 

Best Regards,

 

Lee

 

 

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 9:05 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:

>

> Super - thanks Rex and Devi!

>

> Best Regards,

>

> Lee

>

> Sent from my IPhone 8 Plus - please excuse typos.

>

>

>

>

>> On Mar 13, 2020, at 7:59 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

>>

>> I used to have a similar netbook.  Mine was an ASUS with the Atom processor with 1 GB of RAM.  I did run Lubuntu on it as well as Bodhi Linux.  Neither is very resource intensive.  Lubuntu 18.04 and Bodhi 5.0 still have 32 bit versions.  Another distro that will probably run on it is Trisquel 8.0 mini.  It also still has a 32 bit version.  You could try all three and see which you prefer.

>> Rex

>>

>>>>> On 3/13/20 7:47 PM, Lee Ilse wrote:

>>> Folks,

>>>  I may have asked this question years ago, but I can’t find a response so please accept my apologies in advance if this is a double-tap:

>>> I have an ancient netbook (Dell Mini-9 with an Atom N270 CPU) that originally had only 1G of RAM and an 8G SSD.  I later upgraded it to 2G RAM and a 32G SSD and ran Windows XP on it for a few years. But it has sat on a shelf unused since XP extended support ended 6 years ago.  Is there a Linux release that will run on this platform?  Or would attempting this just be a a frustrating learning experience?

>>>  I would like to get familiar with the OS again (I loaded a version of Red Hat about 20 years ago but never did much with it).  I plan to retire within the next year and will then be free to cut the (Army) Windows cord.   This experiment would be just dipping my toe in the water again before jumping in with both feet.    I just am not in position to experiment with either of my other computers  at this point (I got rid of my other ancient hardware last year during spring cleaning - this one just was hidden away and was missed).

>>>  Thanks in advance for any pointers.

>>> Best Regards,

>>> Lee

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Thanks!  The wired connection works so I will try this tomorrow!
Best Regards,
Lee 

Thanks!  The wired connection works so I will try this tomorrow!

Best Regards,

Lee 

Sent from my IPhone 8 Plus - please excuse typos.

On Mar 16, 2020, at 8:23 PM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:



If I remember correctly you said it was a mini 9 netbook so I googled that and here’s a tutorial to get the WiFi working in Ubuntu https://accidentaltechnologist.com/technology/enabling-wireless-on-a-dell-mini-9-running-ubuntu-9-1-netbook-remix/

On Mar 16, 2020, at 8:20 PM, Devi Garcia <asphyxiated.god@gmail.com> wrote:



Given that’s it’s an older machine and you installed the 18.x version of Lubuntu your going to have to find out what kind of WiFi card your laptop has and basically build the module yourself as most older chipsets are no longer shipped in newer kernels .

So In windows terms you basically need to find the WiFi card and find the Linux drivers you need to make it work.

On Mar 16, 2020, at 8:14 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:

 Yup - now opens within 35 seconds from cold start (and about 10s of that is just to get through the bios)!  :-)

Now if I can just get the WiFi to work...

Best Regards,

Lee 

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On Mar 15, 2020, at 8:08 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

 Welcome aboard (again).  Any time you boot into the live mode from a USB flash drive, it will be slower as David has stated.  You will notice an increase in speed after installation.  Because Lubuntu has Abiword as the default word processor, I always would install LibreOffice because I needed the extras.  You may not need them.  Starting with 19.04 Lubuntu moved to the LXQT desktop and deleted the 32 bit version.  No worry though, 18.04 is supported until April 2021.
Rex

On 3/15/20 7:57 PM, David Garcia wrote:

Slow speed was more then likely the usb drive and usb port speed slowing down the loading times.. since it was decompressing and loading everything on the fly on boot.. once you install it on the PC should load a bit faster and shouldn’t take minutes to load. Welcome to the land of open source and some would say freedom.

 

From: Lee Ilse
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2020 7:52 PM
To: cochiselinux@freelists.org
Subject: [cochiselinux] Another Noob Tests The Water

 

Downloaded Lubuntu 18.04  yesterday and made a bootable thumb drive using Rufus this afternoon.  This evening I was able to boot Lubuntu from the stick and test drive the OS on the Mini-9.  It did take a couple minutes to load from the stick - I’m not sure if this was because of the ancient CPU or the rather slow USB 2.0 port. But it looks good and ran the word processor and Firefox OK - so tomorrow I will load it on the SSD drive and that should boot quite a bit faster.   Thanks again guys!

 

Best Regards,

 

Lee

 

 

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 9:05 PM, Lee Ilse <leeilse@cox.net> wrote:

>

> Super - thanks Rex and Devi!

>

> Best Regards,

>

> Lee

>

> Sent from my IPhone 8 Plus - please excuse typos.

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>> On Mar 13, 2020, at 7:59 PM, Rex Bouwense <majb@azloco.com> wrote:

>>

>> I used to have a similar netbook.  Mine was an ASUS with the Atom processor with 1 GB of RAM.  I did run Lubuntu on it as well as Bodhi Linux.  Neither is very resource intensive.  Lubuntu 18.04 and Bodhi 5.0 still have 32 bit versions.  Another distro that will probably run on it is Trisquel 8.0 mini.  It also still has a 32 bit version.  You could try all three and see which you prefer.

>> Rex

>>

>>>>> On 3/13/20 7:47 PM, Lee Ilse wrote:

>>> Folks,

>>>  I may have asked this question years ago, but I can’t find a response so please accept my apologies in advance if this is a double-tap:

>>> I have an ancient netbook (Dell Mini-9 with an Atom N270 CPU) that originally had only 1G of RAM and an 8G SSD.  I later upgraded it to 2G RAM and a 32G SSD and ran Windows XP on it for a few years. But it has sat on a shelf unused since XP extended support ended 6 years ago.  Is there a Linux release that will run on this platform?  Or would attempting this just be a a frustrating learning experience?

>>>  I would like to get familiar with the OS again (I loaded a version of Red Hat about 20 years ago but never did much with it).  I plan to retire within the next year and will then be free to cut the (Army) Windows cord.   This experiment would be just dipping my toe in the water again before jumping in with both feet.    I just am not in position to experiment with either of my other computers  at this point (I got rid of my other ancient hardware last year during spring cleaning - this one just was hidden away and was missed).

>>>  Thanks in advance for any pointers.

>>> Best Regards,

>>> Lee

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Thanks again!

I read the article and completely confused myself last night – ended up accidentally deleting the wired connection and couldn’t figure out how to restore it so I did a complete re-install (which worked to my advantage since I encrypted the drive the first time and it was a pain to deal with).   Finally watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukk8tVStOJo later last night and got the wifi working this afternoon.   Downloading OpenOffice now – now past the rolling over stage and ready to crawl!

Lee

On Mar 16, 2020, at 8:20 PM, Devi Garcia < asphyxiated.god@gmail.com > wrote:

Given that’s it’s an older machine and you installed the 18.x version of Lubuntu your going to have to find out what kind of WiFi card your laptop has and basically build the module yourself as most older chipsets are no longer shipped in newer kernels .