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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: KB2HSH on June 15, 2009, 09:00:39 AM

Title: Tiny Core 2.0 on an OLD Compaq laptop
Post by: KB2HSH on June 15, 2009, 09:00:39 AM

Good morning, everyone. 

Just "weighing in" to mention that TC 2.0 runs fantastically on my ancient 233 MHz PII Compaq laptop.  I was "shopping" around for a light distro that I could use on my garage PC...and after trying a few, TC seems to be what I needed.  Puppy worked well, but I have no use for photo editing software, an office suite, and games I'll never play.  TC is unique in that I start with a clean slate, and add what I want to add.  Too bad MS never built upon that concept.

All that's left for me to "add" to TC is a PS/2 mouse (I hate touchpads...and my serial mouse doesn't work), audio drivers, and wireless (TC doesn't see my Belkin F5D7010 wifi card...but it does see my Xircon modem/NIC).

But for a super lightweight distro where all I want is to run telnet, an IRC client, and maybe some Google News, TC is PERFECT.

Title: Re: Tiny Core 2.0 on an OLD Compaq laptop
Post by: gerits on June 15, 2009, 09:30:24 AM

Microsoft can never run on a concept like this, because when they do this they would ask money for everything.. And nobody wants to pay for ms games and windows media player..

Title: Re: Tiny Core 2.0 on an OLD Compaq laptop
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on June 15, 2009, 03:27:12 PM

Quote from: KB2HSH on June 15, 2009, 09:00:39 AM

(TC doesn't see my Belkin F5D7010 wifi card...but it does see my Xircon modem/NIC).

Did you try the wireless extensions?