What old beast are you proudly running MX Linux on ?

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Neil
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Re: What old beast are you proudly running MX Linux on ?

#11 Post by Neil »

ThinkPad T43, which is probably over twenty years old. Web browsing is so slow that I won't use this laptop for anything other than reading forums. It sits on the coffee table next to the sofa and I'm using it now for this post.

MX_GRD
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Re: What old beast are you proudly running MX Linux on ?

#12 Post by MX_GRD »

HP Mini 1.6Ghz, 1GB RAM, 150GB HD, MX18.3, no battery; slow as molasses on web. Perfect for bedtime reading.

seriousness
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Re: What old beast are you proudly running MX Linux on ?

#13 Post by seriousness »

AV Linux MX-21 Edition on a Samsung RV520, built in August 2011. 4x 2,3 GHz, 6 GB Ram.
Performance is great compared to the also installed Windows 10 21H2 .

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AVLinux
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Re: What old beast are you proudly running MX Linux on ?

#14 Post by AVLinux »

seriousness wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:50 am AV Linux MX-21 Edition on a Samsung RV520, built in August 2011. 4x 2,3 GHz, 6 GB Ram.
Performance is great compared to the also installed Windows 10 21H2 .
Love to hear that!

2005 Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop here maxxed out at 2Gb of RAM, At the time I paid big money for the 1920x1200 display but I've never regretted it... One of the first core-Duos but sadly only 32bit.. Currently happily running MX-21 with Enlightenment D.E.

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entropyfoe
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Re: What old beast are you proudly running MX Linux on ?

#15 Post by entropyfoe »

I have an old SFF (small form factor) machine I built over 11 years ago. :happy:
I was running MX 18.3 until recently. It had my usual configuration, AMD CPU (a Athlon 615e 45Watts, four cores @ 2.5 GHz), Asus board, SSD (60 Gig back in the day), and upgraded to 8G RAM. Probably the computing power of a lot of phones these days.

Was totally functional for browser based-banking and finance stuff to segregate for security (No e-mail or casual browsing).
I was going to upgrade it a few months ago, but working in the small case is such a hassle. So, I updated it to MX 21. Still works great, now serving as a back-up machine.

Pays to buy good hardware. It also as a 1TB WD green drive. These drives had a 1 year warranty, but still works. Admittedly the system has a lot of time suspended to RAM.
MX 23.5 on Asus PRIME X470-PRO
AMD Ryzen 3600X (12 threads @ 3.8 GHz)
32 Gig DDR4 3600 (Crucial CL 16)
Nvidia GeForce GT 710
Samsung 970 NVMe nvme0n1 P1-3=MX-23.5, P4=testing
Samsung 980 NVMe =1TB Data, plus 2TB WD =backups
on-board ethernet & sound

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Re: What old beast are you proudly running MX Linux on ?

#16 Post by seriousness »

AVLinux wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:12 am
seriousness wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:50 am AV Linux MX-21 Edition on a Samsung RV520, built in August 2011. 4x 2,3 GHz, 6 GB Ram.
Performance is great compared to the also installed Windows 10 21H2 .
Love to hear that!
Thanks to Openbox' ability to hide titlebars, Ardour fits perfectly on the 1366x768 screen.

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mklym
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Re: What old beast are you proudly running MX Linux on ?

#17 Post by mklym »

Panasonic CF-29 w/touchscreen from about 2006. Use daily for web search, browsing, document creation, video watching (doesn't like 1080p but 720p is good), navigation, whatever, etc, etc.

Kernel is patched to allow use of both PCMCIA ports.

Also have an ssd with MX21.1 that runs almost as quick as 19.4

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System:    Kernel: 4.19.118 i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.118 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro reboot=pci quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.14.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19.4_386 patito feo October 15  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Matsushita product: CF-29LTQGZBM v: 004 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Matsushita model: CF29-4 v: 001 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix K.K. v: 4.00L11 
           date: 07/19/2005 
CPU:       Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Dothan family: 6 
           model-id: D (13) stepping: 8 microcode: 20 cache: L2: 2 MiB 
           flags: nx pae sse sse2 bogomips: 3192 
           Speed: 1600 MHz min/max: 600/1600 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1600 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable 
           Type: l1tf status: Vulnerable 
           Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics vendor: Matsushita 
           driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:2592 class-ID: 0300 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.14.0 driver: loaded: intel 
           display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 270x203mm (10.6x8.0") 
           s-diag: 338mm (13.3") 
           Monitor-1: LVDS1 res: 1024x768 hz: 60 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.1 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW AC97 Audio vendor: Matsushita 
           driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1e.2 chip-ID: 8086:266e class-ID: 0401 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.19.118 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 12.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Marvell 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Matsushita driver: sky2 
           v: 1.30 port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 11ab:4362 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200 
           v: 1.2.2kmprq port: 3000 bus-ID: 06:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:4223 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: eth1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 149.06 GiB used: 104.61 GiB (70.2%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD SM841N mSATA 128GB 
           size: 119.24 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown> 
           type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 5D0Q scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 model: SDCFXS-032G size: 29.82 GiB block-size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown> type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 6.01 
           scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 117.21 GiB size: 114.87 GiB (98.00%) used: 104.61 GiB (91.1%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.1%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 53.8 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2006 lib: 1003 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mirror.it.ubc.ca/mxlinux/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/softmaker.list 
           1: deb http://shop.softmaker.com/repo/apt stable non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 181 Uptime: 15m wakeups: 2 Memory: 1.46 GiB used: 1 GiB (68.7%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 
           alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in default: Bash v: 5.0.3 running-in: quick-system-in 
           inxi: 3.3.06 
CF-29LTQ, CF-30FCS, CF-31SBM, CF-52GUN, CF-53AAG, HP Z420

Life's Journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways totally worn-out shouting 'Woo Hoo! What a ride!'

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pianokeyjoe
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Re: What old beast are you proudly running MX Linux on ?

#18 Post by pianokeyjoe »

HP T5740 thin client(3GB ram, Intel ATOM N280 1.6ghz, 8GB SSD). And also on DATALUX touch screen Police cruiser machines with 4GB Ram, Intel Core 2 duo 2.5Ghz ,120GB SSD and Intel CORE i5 2.5ghz 8GB ram, 120GB SSD. All these running Live embedded version of MX LINUX 19.3 32bit(thin client), and 64bit AHS (DATALUX touch screen machines).
Pianokeyjoe
Intel i5 3.10ghz ,8GB ram, Intel onboard everything, 500GB HDD, MX-LINUX 19.3 :penguin:

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Re: What old beast are you proudly running MX Linux on ?

#19 Post by smawgmaw »

Acer Aspire One D255E with Intel Atom N455, (1.66GHz, 512KB cache), 1GB DDR3 memory and 160GB HDD with MXLinux Fluxbox installed on it. It is multibooted with Bodhi, Sparky Linux and EndeavourOS also.

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figueroa
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Re: What old beast are you proudly running MX Linux on ?

#20 Post by figueroa »

Currently, a Gateway ec1803h (Circa 2009), which I've upgraded to 4 GB RAM. Slow, but everything works, if a bit slowly.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Gateway-E ... 716.0.html
Andy Figueroa
Using Unix from 1984; GNU/Linux from 1993

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