Puppyt wrote:@Doc_152,
Welcome to the kennels
I have a Toshiba Portege 3480CT with 196MB RAM, 500MHz Coppermine PIII CPU. I run an partition with XP on the 7200rpm 160GB HD, but it is untouched compared to the Pupplets I run on it frugally - Fluppy 013 (413 frugal), MacPup520 (lucid), Simplicity 10:10, ZenPup5, TEENpup2010min, and MJINpup. Perhaps you might like to look at something in that range for optimal performance - I'm no expert on Slacko, but you might like to consider the latest Wary for that machine, or even some of pemasu's recent Upup Precise versions (chose retro kernels, though all boast near-latest packages like FF18 I think) if you want function with maximum compatibility with whatever-the-hottest-flavour file format (docx, xlsx etc). Lucid 528 would probably be my choice, with the latest Frisbee modifications from rerwin to make wifi.pcmcia a breeze...
Lenovo T60 with 4GB RAM, 1.66 GHz dual core CPUs running Dpup 5X14, LightHouse 64beta, PolarPup5, Saluki v6, MacPup528, Akita13 (will upgrade that soon, sc0ttman).
Opentec Openfire Series2 (RT686 mbo with Coppermine PIII 500MHz, 512MB PC1200 sdram (I think)) testing Upup precise 3.7.2 for permanent home on usb-flash, no HDD or cd-burner. This is similar machine to an Amrel Rocky II RT686.
Holy crap, mate! This thing flies! Just installed wary, and while i needs a few tweaks, it runs unbelievably well.
Had to bump down the drive to a 4200 rpm and the bootloader took some tweaking, as you might know installing an os on this thing is a PITA, but it runs great. I'm writing this on the Portege.
EDIT: How does XP run for you? Your cpu is a bit quicker, but its the ram that held mine back. For me it was swapping like an old lady at a flea market. Totally unusable.
Edit2: tried lucid 528 and it used a bit more ram than i'm comfortable with. I hear precise runs at around 50 megs, so i'm gonna give it a go tomorrow.
Edit3: did you get sound working on yours? Our rigs are closely related and ee should have the same 16 bit soundblaster sound card. Mine doesnt seem to work though. Not in xp and not in puppy.
