06 November 2024

Versions!

Crispy is my laptop.

Stage I was with Win7.

I've been running Ubuntu on it for a while.

Bionic Beaver lasted all of an hour while we discovered that its version of Thunderbird wasn't compatible with the configuration file from the one I had installed on Win7.

Focal Fossa (Stage II) ran for three years until I got fed up with the nagging to update to...

Jammy Jellyfish (Stage III) was running fine until something went wrong with the WD Green SSD I was using.

Today I replaced the hard drive with a WD Blue of the same capacity and am running...

Noble Numbat, aka Stage IV!

Running fine on a 2011 made Lenovo T420S.

Posted by Angus McThag at 19:57
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  1. Software Janitor06 November, 2024 22:53

    It is pretty incredible how long Linux can make old hardware last. And Ubuntu as far as Linux goes is considered fairly heavy weight. There are other distros including Ubuntu derivatives like Xubuntu which are even more lightweight and can run on even older hardware.
    -swj

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  2. slow joe crow07 November, 2024 12:31

    I guess it's time to install a Linux distribution on the 2014 vintage ThinkPad T440S. My son favors Mint on laptops and I've used Xubuntu for years

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  3. Paul Chappell07 November, 2024 16:12

    Interesting as I'm looking at the possibility of deploying Linux to a number of older Desktops and Laptops here when Win 10 goes end of life... Fun things you get to do as the CIO I suppose, I've been a "Windows Guy" for a long time with the ancient MCSE from the 90's getting me a leg up on my IT career, but being a very small University I am seeing "limited" options for these second and third line machines that we still need to run for Student workstations, etc... These days it is looking like this will be the way forward in a time of very limited budgets...

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