Re: Tutorial creating & using Hirens Boot CD & MemTest86 diagnostic stress testing tools for USB boot to Windows 10 PE & WinXPmini on BIOS & UEFI
Mike Easter <[email protected]>
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David W. Hodgins wrote: > Arlen Holder wrote: >> As long as it works with the HP LJ 3200m scanner, I'm fine with Linux. > > $ grep 'HP LaserJet 3200' /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat > model1=HP LaserJet 3200 All-in-One Printer > model2=HP LaserJet 3200se All-in-One Printer > >>> Since your machine has 2G ram, it has even more linux options than my 1G >>> machine; likely the 'bottleneck' restricting choices would be what its >>> old graphics are, which we don't know at this point. > >> Actually, it has only 1/2 GB of RAM. >> o It's a $500 Dell Inspiron B130. > I misread his 1/2 as 2. 0.5 isn't much ram. I don't have anything around here that low. Even my RPi3B is 1 G. > I have Mageia 7 running xfce4 on a toshiba portege with 1GB ram. > That's slow enough that trying to run on 1/2 GB would be swapping > before it even starts to load a desktop environment. It might be ok > as a command line only system, any but gui would be intolerably > slow. > I have a current Sparky minimal GUI that is pretty light. It is OpenBox over Debian. The Raspbian on the RPi is OB & some LXDE parts. Sparky uses Thunar file, LX term. Its free -m to the live desktop is 237. -- Mike Easter