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Another Play with Puppy Linux

It has been almost a year since my last look at Puppy Linux so I dusted off the old ThinkPad 600e laptop (pentium 2!) and had a look at Puppy 4.2.1.

Initially it would hang while booting from CD. After some searching I learned to give the “acpi=force” argument at boot and that got things going.

Once

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As the long-time readers know, I’m always looking for Operating System options suitable for the older hardware — especially my beloved old IBM Thinkpad 600e. Just back in September I thought I had hit upon the perfect solution: Dual-booting Windows 2000 and Puppy Linux. However, after just a few weeks I stopped using Puppy due

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More Options for the Old Machine

This is a follow-up to a year old post titled Another Option for the Old Machine.

A year ago I determined that Windows 2000 standard was the most reasonable OS for my old Thinkpad 600e laptop. It is just the most “usable” as far as performance goes.

However, during the past year I’ve installed and removed

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Another Option for the Old Machine

Long time readers here have seen more than one article about my quest to to breath life into an old Thinkpad 600E laptop that I have. It is a Pentium 2 with 288MB ram and a 6GB disk — and I think it still has a fair amount of life in it. I

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