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Well , freind of mine used 286 as alarm clock in time of pentium one.

PS. I think can be used as online radio player for some shop/garage etc (switch radio station with cron and vlc or any...

Hi,
Yours CPU got 64 bit set,
http://ark.intel.com/products/58916/ spec

Pleasy try install
Xubuntu 13.04 64-bit or Lubuntu 13.04 64 bit

I run Xubuntu 64 bit and it use about 600-800mb ram...

BlinkinCat - THX for meseage. :-) :-) :-)

Hi same problem on Samsung R730 laptop - but did't test vlc and cpu use is low but, mouse get stock after 5 min from boot - abut 90% of all boots.
I can't get new bios becouse laptop is from 2010...

Hi Jerrylamos , did You try plop boot manager??? (workaround)

Pionter speed - usb mouse is not working ok (change speed every day and is very lagy after 3-5min from boot).
Xubuntu 13.04, 64 bit ,
Samsung R730 (windows 7 and xface fedora 18 works ok , with...

Write some line to file, add

xmodmap -e "keycode 57 = n N nacute Nacute nacute Nacute"

to

/etc/rc.local

It might works but isn't very elegant :-)

Thanks for Idea.

I improve little this setup.

128SSD (for up to 2 OS) and 1TB Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive,

Loads of room with great speed and good prize.

If 2nd hdd pocekt is...

Try get mini usb thumb like this:

Integral-16GB-Fusion-Flash-Drive

And please have a look here:

http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

Install boot manager on any usb-thumb and try boot...

Hi,

Can You post some sort of script for optimiaze flash while installing it from Ubuntu repos.

Like override GPU settinegs etc...?

On last fiew laptops I used flash-aid,
and it does the...

Unity,
I think intel i915 is bare min for ubuntu 12.04.

You can try Xubuntu.

I am using ubuntu 10.04 LTS on old laptop,
Siemens with celeron 2500 and intel 845GV.

PS. Latest Fedora wtih...

XUbubtu 12.04 , 64 bit

Asus K53E SX1577V

Out of box, evrything.
CPU Intel B815,
GPU Intel HD3000,

Skype: Ok, and video OK.

Looking for simple script to remove from grub2 (on ubuntu 12.04)

this entry from boot menu list.

"Windows Recovery Environment (loader) (on /dev/sda1)"

PS: I edit file:
...

Becouse browser (with flash plugin) will use more power then any text editor.

and for sure if You start watching move at VLC,
than batery performacne will drop to 90 min.
Plese chesk the CPU...

Try this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-aid/

PS. I test fiew "How to improve falsh"

but this above is simple and works on 64 bits system.

You can chose between repo...

Clean install with
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lucid/daily-live/current/

Recomended :-), Worth a time :-),

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lucid/daily-live/current/lucid-desktop-i386.iso

I bet that is an old intel GPU.

Trun off ale option at last tab (in first screen of livecd)

than press TAB, and add this options:

gfxpayload=1024x768 i915.modeset=1

or...

Before You setup new partition table, please check HDD for "bad sectors",
if any will be found than create new partition withhout "bad sectors",

IMHO, less partitions less trouble,

Just make 3...

Boot in ubuntu and istnall Synaptic (if not in system),

Open Synaptic and re-install grub-pc,

and from terminal


sudo os-prober
sudo update-grub

Ofcourse 4 GB is to small for full OS,

Might consider install "presistant" iso or get biger USB

similar topic:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1596497

Yes, but some distro wan't boot up.:popcorn:

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

more about linux on usb http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1596497

Ok,
I tell You that on my old CPU,
NEW 12,04 runs on 70 procent doing nothing.
Left for me 1/3 POwER.

Ubuntu 10.04 run on 3 procnet + 5 procnet for radiostation on 20 for VLC stream.

And I...

Fresh install but

You could pop in a livecd and try install midnigt commander and log i terminal as root, than chmod everything You like backup and copy it somewhere safe.

Based on my own experience, I believe it will not be possible to use the default software repositories. So you cannot install or update software from those repos. Correct me if I'm wrong, though.

...

Well I using ubuntu 10.04 on Pentium III, with 512 MB ram a

And to post above Celeron M is not like PIII at all,
for speedstep I use p4-clockmod (driver for CPU) for other celern 2500MHZ

Intel...