Linux for Atom Notebook

[Leon Goldstein]

Ah, so that's the rub.  Thanks for the heads up.

Guess I'll prowl the local pawn shops for an old laptop with a decent 
CPU.  Both my old HP and this notebook have access panels on the bottom 
for easy R&R of drives and RAM.  The newer ones require complete 
disassembly, and I'm not going there.

On 03/02/2016 12:08 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> This isn't a RAM issue.  The CPU is way too limited.  Intel wised up a
> few years ago and retargeted their Atom CPUs for embedded purposes,
> which is a far more suitable market (where they hope to eat into ARMs
> lunch).
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Leon Goldstein <metapsych at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Lonni: Win 10 on this thing, even the "light weight" version on it, is
>> glacial.  That's why I asked.
>> 2 Gb RAM should be more than adequate for a 32-bit Linux.  I have the 64-bit
>> SuSE 13.1 and LEAP on an old HP laptop (AMD Turion) and "free" shows lots of
>> free memory, i.e. little or no swap use.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 03/02/2016 11:49 AM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>> Any modern distribution should work fine, but be forewarned,
>>> performance is going to be awful.  Those old Atom CPUs are not capable
>>> of much of anything, especially desktop usage.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 7:40 AM, Leon Goldstein via Linux-users
>>> <linux-users at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>>>> A friend gave me an old Toshiba NB 305 notebook.  I would like to install
>>>> a
>>>> SSD and use Linux.  The notebook originally had Windows 7, upgraded to
>>>> 10,
>>>> so it does not have UEFI to contend with.  It also has 2 GB or RAM.
>>>>
>>>> So, what would be a good 32-bit Linux to use with it?
>>>>
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>>>> Leon A. Goldstein
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>>>> OpenSuSE 13.1
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>> Leon A. Goldstein
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>>
>
>

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Leon A. Goldstein
System L2
OpenSuSE 13.1