[Wolves] Talk: John Alexander - Making Hardware Work, 10th February

[Adam Sweet]

On 12/02/2021 16:12, Adam Sweet wrote:
> On 12/02/2021 07:27, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint wrote:
>> Thank you everyone involved including top tutorial on finding hardware
>> issues in Linux from John..
>>
>>
>> Looking forward too next one..
>>
>> I am installing solus Linux on slow dell latitude d520  laptop... ram
>> 3gb . HDD 80gb .. it has got 64 bit Intel CPU.
>>
> Looking it up, the CPU is actually 1.66 GHz. 667 MHz is the system bus
> speed. Nevertheless, that seems like it will be an uphill struggle
> without more RAM.

Actually, according to this:

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/27234/intel-core-duo-processor-t2300e-2m-cache-1-66-ghz-667-mhz-fsb.html

That's a 32 bit CPU so RAM might not be your only problem. Solus doesn't
appear to support 32 bit x86. You might try BunsenLabs, but again you're
still short on RAM.

A quick Google brought up this article which may have you choose a
distro if you can't get Solus running:

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/best-lightweight-linux-distro

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