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quantrex
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Puppy projects

#1 Post by quantrex »

I'm a new Puppy user ( http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87038 ) but am somewhat familiar with Ubuntu and currently have Mint 14 Nadia on my laptop. I saw a thread asking about what the minimum system requirements are for Puppy. I don't know if this qualifies, but it's as minimal as I have...an HP Pavilion 7800 with a 700MHz Pentium III and 256Mb of 133MHz SDRAM, an ancient 24X CD-ROM and a 256Mb flash drive.
And yeah, Puppy Wary 5.5 works....even using the on-board video.
My next project is a Compaq C700 laptop with a 1.47 Core-2-Duo cpu that was stripped for parts and has no display, no keyboard or touchpad, no wifi, no hard drive, no RAM and no battery. It does still have a DVD-RW, the AC cord and I have two sticks of 512Mb RAM that will work. I am going to see if I can connect an 80Gb external hard drive and get this thing to run Puppy 5.28 or maybe FatDog (that I just heard about).
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#2 Post by Burn_IT »

That is modern and HUGE compared with one old one I have here.

It is Cyrix 233Mhz based with 64Mb RAM and a massive 4Gb disk and an ISA based 1mb graphic card.
It runs installed Puppy 4.22 (although slowly).
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#3 Post by quantrex »

Whoa, that is old. Somewhere around here I have an old Socket 7 to Cyrix 133 composite processor but I got rid of my ISA stuff years ago.

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