[olug] Compaq Presario 5080US

[Dave Thacker]

On Saturday 17 February 2007 09:42, Paul & Debbie Lewis wrote:
> Everyone,
>     Thanks for the sage advice on this!  I don't have Ubuntu.  I do have
> the Knoppix disks around.  I've got two things I want to try with this
> machine so tell me which of the two would work best:  I have weather models
> written in Fortran77 that I'd like to get running in the long term and in
> the short term I'd also like to "Burn" my LPs to CD.  I'm planning on using
> Audacity for the second.  The computer is capable of going to 512 mb, so in
> the long term I'll probably do that, but do I only need 256 to get Gnome
> and/or KDE running?

256MB should be ok for running a couple of things together.  
(OpenOffice/Email) (Browser/Music Player),  If you want to run more then you 
will need to go to 512MB.   

>      I agree that this machine doesn't run so well with Windoze.  Currently
> has ME on it and I can only keep it running for a few minutes before some
> software locks it up.  I'm tired of fight to keep older PC running on MS,
> so it's time to experiment.  I'll be pulling the modem, I'm running a wired
> network so don't need the winmodem.  Should I have the PC connected to the
> network when building the new OS?

If the the machine is connected to the network during install, you can pull 
down all the latest security updates.  
>
> Thanks in Advance!
> Paul
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul & Debbie Lewis [mailto:phldml3 at cox.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:37 PM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: [olug] Compaq Presario 5080US
>
> Help anyone,
>
>     I got a Compaq Presario 5080US from my sister-in-law and am wondering
> how hard would it be to make it into a Linux box?  I know that Compaq uses
> a lot of goofy drivers just to make Windows work nicely with the CD drives
> and other things.  Has anyone experienced problems with Linux on one of
> these boxes?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
>
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