Whats even considered 'old' anymore? - News and Announcements Threads on LXLE forums

my3ke

I'm working on a couple of old bits of hardware and your lightweight 32bit version would still work well on my Acer Aspire One netbook with a Atom processor and 1gb of RAM. The current version of LXLE is working on it just fine. On this old HP 14 Chromebook with a 64bit Haswell, 4gb of RAM and 16gb onboard storage I'm thinking of replacing GalliumOS with LXLE. I think it could be a good fit as the current OS on here appears to be no longer supported. As an aside, I use LXLE on family member PCs because they just want something that works well. It fills the bill nicely.

MuhibbijAbad

I have a little problem here, I need advice.
1 - I’ve updated bios
2 - inserted 2 memory sticks, 2gb each. PC did not load, and produced continuous beeping sound.
3 - put back old sticks, 1gb each. PC loads fine
4 - put old 1gb stick to the dimm1 and 2gb new stick to the dimm2. PC loads fine and shows 3072MB, ok.
5 - in order to make sure that both 2gb sticks work, I replaced 2gb on dimm2 with the second 2gb stick, again pc works fine.

So both my 2gb sticks for upgrade work fine, but pc doesn’t load when I put them in pair. However pc will load if I put 1gb to the dimm1. What may be the solution?

MuhibbijAbad

Eventually I ended up with replacing motherboard.
Now I can put core duo processors with more cores and cache size.
I have put Pentium E5300 2.6ghz, two cores, 2MB L2 cache, and my two 2gb sticks work fine, so I have 4gb of ram
And more, previous Pentium D 531 did not had 64bit instruction set, that means it can only run 32bit OS. But E5300 does support 64bit instruction set and now I can install 64bit version of LXLE.
I will wait for 20.04 and install it on this my old machine.

lxle

I had a successful build and install last night. Still need to work out a few bugs and of course test test test. But it's a good sign.

MuhibbijAbad

I can't believe it is happening. I had almost decided that LXLE is dead and now here is the new release. I believe it will be as good as previous releases if not better.

Have a nice day!

lxle

I'm not going to reinvent the wheel. There will be a few changes but as of yet nothing major as I think it's pretty solid already.

MuhibbijAbad

Yep!

By the way, Does private messaging work in this forum?

pzeta59

I'm new in this forum; I start using LXLE many years ago on different PCs and I always found LXLE the best lightweight distro. I installed the first time on the PC of my wife, a DELL Studio 1555 with 320 GB HDD and 4 GB RAM.

Now I use on a DELL Latitude D620 with 160 GB HDD and 3 GB RAM. This PC work very well with LXLE.

It has a chipset hardware limitation and the BIOS cannot detect more then 3 GB RAM even in case 4GB are installed.

In this case a 32 bits OS is a good solution in my personal opinion.

I also use on a ACER EeePC 1015CX equipped with 320 GB HDD and 2GB RAM, a 2012 PC originally shipped with Ubuntu 12.04.

This PC has a Intel ATOM N2600 @ 1.6 GHz; it has EMT64 technology but it is disabled in the BIOS and cannot be enabled with original ACER BIOS. On this PC 64 bits distro cannot run.

On this PC I tested different lightweight distro like AntiX and Elive.

AntiX does not detect PC webcam and microphone; and I don't like the UI of Elive.

LXLE is the only lightweight distro that work perfectly on this PC and I like very much.

So I hope that LXLE will continue to support this kind of PC, even if I understand that these are old machine.

Excuse me for my english, I'm italian.

verdant

In my case, desktop PCs dating from 2004 with a LGA775 MOBO, a Core 2Quad CPU and a max of 8G DDR2 PC2-6400 RAM because they are so reliable.......

shortarcflyer

I am going to try LXLE on my old Acer Aspire One D255E netbook with Intel Atom N455 (1.66GHz, 512KB cache) and 1GB DDR3 memory and see how it does. I will report back with my findings.

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