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southrn
November 6th, 2011, 05:23 PM
I have a 8-9 yr old laptop and i am running 10.04 on it, but its extremely slow, is there a different version i can put on the old laptop and speed things up?
collisionystm
November 6th, 2011, 05:34 PM
I have a 8-9 yr old laptop and i am running 10.04 on it, but its extremely slow, is there a different version i can put on the old laptop and speed things up?

What is the model of your laptop?
southrn
November 6th, 2011, 05:38 PM
it is a compaq presario 1800T
collisionystm
November 7th, 2011, 10:52 PM
it is a compaq presario 1800T

Holy Jeebus.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00010057&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=95419

That's pretty old!

If that HP spec sheet is correct I would say you are barely running 10.04.

I would first try
http://crunchbanglinux.org/
With OpenBox

Then

Check out Puppy Linux
http://www.puppylinux.com/
lkraemer
November 8th, 2011, 02:31 PM
Have a look at:

1. Tiny Core
2. SliTaz
3. lupu-528.iso Lucid Puppy from:
http://puppylinux.org/main/Download%20Latest%20Release.htm
4. Crunchbang
5. Puppy Linux
6. Tiny ME

All should work good for you.

lk
whatthefunk
November 8th, 2011, 02:34 PM
How much RAM does that have? If it has 256 at least, Lubuntu should run well on it.
collisionystm
November 8th, 2011, 03:11 PM
I found this, it seems like its right up your ally!

Sugar on a stick

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/OLPC-Sugar-Labs-Software-USB,8136.html

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Downloads
cespinal
November 8th, 2011, 03:33 PM
I found this, it seems like its right up your ally!

Sugar on a stick

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/OLPC-Sugar-Labs-Software-USB,8136.html

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Downloads

why is my mouth watering?
collisionystm
November 8th, 2011, 08:04 PM
why is my mouth watering?

lol

I tried it. Its actually pretty cool. I don't really understand it, but then again I did not read any documentation.
asteinmetz
November 8th, 2011, 10:19 PM
I am running 8.1 LTS on a vintage 1999 Dell 486 with less than a meg of ram and the machine is pretty snappy.
mörgæs
November 8th, 2011, 10:38 PM
I am running 8.1 LTS on a vintage 1999 Dell 486 with less than a meg of ram and the machine is pretty snappy.


8.10 is not an LTS release. You should let go of it and install a supported one.
In 1999, the 486 CPU was long gone. A 1999-computer is probably a Pentium 3.
You mean that you have less than one gig of memory, I assume