On 2024-12-13 15:04:58, John Cremona wrote: > Using an emulator is a good idea, I will try that if installing MX fluxbox > fails. I came to the conclusion that the USB stick I had been using > yesterday for my debian attempts was faulty,I am using a new one now. > > BUT when I said that the laptop had 3gb I was wrong, that's my > second-oldest laptop (from 2008). The 32-bit one has... 512mb! But I ran > linux on it happily for several years. It is certainly taking a long time > to do anything now. The first computer I installed and ran linux on, in > the 1990s, had only 16mb.
If you're up for an adventure, Gentoo should still work. I use a laptop from 2008 (albeit with a little more RAM) every day. Github might as well be running on the Mars rover, but it's fast until you start a web browser. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/Z1xQpEZBJU2ZqISe%40mertle.
