-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 July 2003 04:40 pm, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > Hello all, > I just got a semi-broken old laptop (acer 701t - p2/233 - 32mb > ram - 3g hdd...) from a friend of mine, which I plan to fix & > use. I already installed debian sid on it & everything works > fine (even divx playback with mplayer :). > I have used low-latency & pre-emptive patches on some desktop > boxes in the past with no significant speed improvements (they > were quite fast already anyway), however I was wondering if > these patches should have any impact on this old laptop's > performance. > > Any suggestions ?
In a word--yes. I have an old Gateway Solo 1200 laptop. It has winXP installed. The machine was very slow. Multimedia reproduction was terrible in many formats. Even playing quake2 was impossible after 2 minutes. Linux: I installed Libranet 2.8betas 1,2&3. I pulled down the patches for 2.4.20 kernel, learned how to apply them, then built kernels. Linux outperformed M$ hands down! It was wonderful to watch all the silly video clips, as well as those I make myself with my Kodak digital camera. I have not yet built any 2.4.21 kernels, but intuition tells me you won't be sorry if you decide to use them on any older machine. BTW, the solo has a 850MHz Celery chip. That was why I elected to learn how to patch kernels :) Good luck to you. Wishing you well. - -- Jaye Inabnit<ARS ke6sls>A Debian-Gnu/Linux user If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. I SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: My key available from www.keyserver.net iD8DBQE/HIzHZHBxKsta6kMRAsZuAKCSvI3zinM99nZS0Dg3NxY9X8MnkACgol6l +ys5gXIcX0Oj8MLo1LEJMWk= =LcsI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
