For older hw I would recommend Debian, but look up how to dl the nonfree-iso or know how to apt get them after basic installation. The documentation on howto do this is easily found on the Debian website. It's that step IMO that people seem to think is poor hw detection, it's just that you need to a...

See if Kingston has a utility to check free space and manually do a TRIM.

uninstall hardware, force it to re find the card and reinstall drivers.

dr_st wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2018 3:15 am

Provided that those non-expert users first obtain a system compatible with Windows 98

it's the case i usually come across.

The standalone DOSBox package is not a one-click thing easy to grasp for someone who has never opened any application more complex that Notepad. However, someone who is familiar with Linux, command line, configuration files, should feel right at home. Thus, I find your opinion on it rather strange,...

DOSBox is an emulator - not a virtual machine. To get good performance you need a machine much more powerful than the one you're emulating. That's not a real problem, since any DOS software ever written was designed to run on much slower machines that we have now. Even something as old as a Pentium...

dr_st wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 15, 2018 3:05 am

Dekks wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 15, 2018 1:44 am

Don't agree at all, it has a very poor reputation.

Which statement exactly do you not agree with? You quoted several.

DOSbox is mince, nothing but trouble.

dr_st wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 15, 2018 12:12 am

There is also the possibility of using DOSBox and installing Win98 in it. That is not officially supported, and requires a custom build. May end up being more complicated than Wine. But for DOS games - DOSBox is the best.

Don't agree at all, it has a very poor reputation.

That's great news indeed. Ubuntu looks like the best candidate to me for my needs. Any chance some of you guys have experience using Wine on Linux? Is it possible to make windows games playable on Linux, from the Win 98 era? IMO the overhead wine introduces would be too much on top of ubuntu, might...

I've run Debian 9 & Arch 32bit without issue on my X32 both on HDD and a mSATA/IDE adapter combo with the radeon gfx driver. Everything works out of the box in my experience without issue.

micrex22 wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:47 pm

Windows XP and beyond is just too bloated, that's the problem.

No the OS isnt the problem the browser is. Look at CPU utilisation as dr-st says.

video replay isn't really an issue at 720p it's the webpages loading times on the social media pages.

OS/2 IMO isnt worth the effort as Debian 9 does what i need on my T43.

If you want it as a document processor where the screen & screen size come into play they are great, not so as a web browsing device where modern JS laden pages kill the single core processor.

What BIOS is on the T61.

A new wifi card can be useful upgrade if you don't have bluetooth and you get a combi card.

I've probably missed it, but where can I find instructions for configuring my T60P for an SSD? Any recommendations on current SSDs? I'm looking for a reliable 500GB SSD in the $150 range. Also, does the Middleton BIOS upgrade work for a T60P to enable SATA II speeds? And if so, where can I find it?...

In every T6x that I ever had (and there were dozens, if not hundreds), any Turbo Memory was removed due to malfunctioning sooner rather than later. I have never noticed any difference with or without that POS. Remove palmrest and keyboard, it's the small card under the far left KB-corner. It's wort...

Puppy wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 05, 2017 2:34 pm

I got them and it does not work. It finds the Bluetooth headphones device but it is not able to install it. The headphones works with Windows 8.1 PC and Windows 10 Mobile devices.

No working XP driver then i guess.

Puppy wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 05, 2017 6:03 am

As for removing trackpoint from ThinkPad, we already know Lenovo can do it, if it saves $1 and won't affect sales in total. The number of current ThinkPad corporate customers who prefer trackpoint over touchpad is very low, unfortunately.

Wrong but that's never stopped you before.

Puppy wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 17, 2017 9:57 am

As usually, Windows is the only fully patched secure OS leaving others behind.

Openbsd got there first, there was a NDA on the bug to co-ordinate release of patches, most6 of the usual suspects had patches ready to go on the expiry of the NDA. Openbsd & MS decided to release early.

Links work fine on FF 55 on Arch 4.12-12 w/ GNOME 3

On windows? try flushing DNS cache ipconfig /flushdns as admin.

Are you aware of the samsung 840 performance problem with its TLC NAND? Why all the subvolumes under var/lib? cant you start with a simplified set up

No the samsung SSD ahh x1 thats a very complex fstab ahh x 2 btrfs - do you routine filesystem maintenance from the likes of https://github.com/kdave/btrfsmaintenance EDIT: dont run /var/tmp in RAM its meant for permanent tmp files that are active over boots EDIT: why are your grub partitions btrfs?...

I've been using Samsung solid state drives (SSDs) in (2) of my T61 laptops with no problems. OS is current version of openSuse. Recently I have been having a variety of problems with these units that appear to be related to the SSDs. Question: In the Middleton BIOS, I have set "SATA Controller Mode...

Still has Thinkpad name

AMD/Lenovo just officially announced both: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-AMD-ThinkPads-A275-and-A475-announced-with-Bristol-Ridge.246018.0.html Presumably there will be Ryzen/Raven-Ridge based models in early 2018 at some point. Poor decision Thinkpad T/X brands shouldn't be tainted by such ...

Given the general negative view of AMD CPUs pre Ryzen i'm amazed Lenovo PR are even contemplating anything non Ryzen.

dr_st wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 28, 2017 6:19 am

Dekks wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 28, 2017 2:39 am

the code is XML based.

Good God.

Run into XML in a previous life?