I have an Acorn Electron that went faulty but the keyboard is still good and the 5 volt PSU circuitry is good. My plan was to gut it leaving just the keyboard and the PSU circuit board and getting an arduino board along with a raspberry pi or other single board computer inside the Acorn and...
I never bothered with Windows 8. Windows 7 was good tho. I still use Windows 7 but mainly for programming Hytera DMR stuff and for printing. I've also got machines running MS-DOS, Windows 95 and Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 SP4 for retro nostalgia. I also have a toughbook running Windows XP but...
It all depends on what I'm going to use the computer for when I select a Linux Distro
For example my laptop that I plan to use and take to work, I would be looking for something clean and basic and light for web browning so Firefox and Libra Office and a clean destktop where I can drop files...
If there is no 32-bit version then it defeats the purpose of a light weight OS with low system requirements. I've got AntiX that will do. I have my 3 Linux Distros on the ASUS 901 now which are Puppy in the SD card slot and TinyCore on the built in drive and AntiX on the MMC drive. I'm pretty...
I could never get into Mint even though its a popular OS. I think most people probably stick with a small handful of the Linux Destros they find works best for them. I like Linux Lite although it is not as light as it once was.
I've had plenty of SD cards fail on me in the past mainly the ones I used on the Raspberry Pi's but the SD card in my camera has lasted years. I've never had any USB flash drives fail on me sometimes they can become corrupted/unreadable but its normally an easy fix and they continue to work...
So I have a 16GB CF Card suspected of being faulty because I've always had issues with it.
The problems began with I formatted and partitioned the CF Card in G-Parted to where I kept getting errors and the tasks would never complete, all other CF Cards I have work just fine so I know it has...
I'm looking for a graphical desktop environment that is 32bit that I can install and uses minimal hard drive space for my ASUS 901. I have TinyCore installed to it and I have Puppy on SD card that stays in the card slot. The Asus 901 has two drives built in, one 4GB and a 8GB MMC drive I want to...
I've gone through and tested hundreds of Linux Distros over the years I don't think I could ever test them all or even know the existence of all of them.
Here is a short list of the Distros I like the most...
Lubuntu
TinyCore
Botacera
DSL - sadly no longer going.
GOS - no longer going...