Dale wrote: > > A bit of a update. I went to my storage building and found a lot of > rigs mostly with parts missing but found one gem in the bunch that was > all there. I suspect someone put it there when I wasn't at home and > knows where I keep them but it could be one I forgot about too. Anyway, > I got four 1Gb sticks of ram in and am running memtest right now. So > far, no errors. It has a small hard drive in it but not sure if it will > be big enough for everyday use. May have to remove the one from the > current rig she has. It should be big enough for me to test some > distros out tho. ;-) > > Oh, single core running at 2.8GHz. It ain't blazing fast but it's > likely faster than what she currently has plus the memory will help a > lot. It's a older Dell. It has that flip up front that covers the > CD/DVD drives. Some may recall all the torn up CD/DVD drives that > caused. :/ > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
A even better update. That CPU has TWO cores. That's better than one core at least. I wish it had a bigger CPU heat sink. I like them to be big and have large fans. ;-) I've installed Linux Mint with Mate. It's impressive so far. Going to plug in a camera and memory card and see what that does but so far, it's pretty nice. I haven't even figured out how to customize it and it is pretty nice. The updater is GUI and easy. It works a lot like Mageia since it gives a little pop-up and you just click to tell it to go update. This should work well for her but might check out that Manjaro as well. It sounds Mandrake-ish. lol Thanks to all for the suggestions and info. I don't think Linux Mint was even on the radar. Mate sure wasn't. Dale :-) :-)
