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icanfly0307

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Registered: 2009-01-19

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New to Arch: Going to Install on old laptop

Hi all, I tried arch on new years day this year, but i couldn't get X11 to work. so i forgot about it and installed fedora. however, i want to try arch again but would like some advice on whether my computer can run it. I have a 1 Ghz Pentium 3 lappy with 256mb ram. would arch run faster than fedora on my computer? just need some advice before i hit the road. thanks.

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: New to Arch: Going to Install on old laptop

Yes

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baba

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From: Washington

Registered: 2009-07-06

Posts: 22

Re: New to Arch: Going to Install on old laptop

Yes

+1

icanfly0307

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Registered: 2009-01-19

Posts: 16

Re: New to Arch: Going to Install on old laptop

Thanks. Downloading right now and gonna install it tomorrow...

Peasantoid

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Registered: 2009-04-26

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Re: New to Arch: Going to Install on old laptop

It will work. Just don't use anything RAM-intensive like KDE.

VoodooSteve

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2009-03-31

Posts: 43

Re: New to Arch: Going to Install on old laptop

It will work. Just don't use anything RAM-intensive like KDE.

XFCE should run great on that system. As should any of the other lightweight WMs.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: New to Arch: Going to Install on old laptop

If you can stick some more RAM into the thing, that would be useful.

doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

Posts: 403

Re: New to Arch: Going to Install on old laptop

I recommend LXDE or any other WM-only setup (like one of the *boxes). XFCE would work too. It should run great.

icanfly0307

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Registered: 2009-01-19

Posts: 16

Re: New to Arch: Going to Install on old laptop

thanks for the the help everyone. i'm still going to try kde 4.2 because it ran great with fedora on my laptop. if it runs well with fedora, it should run much faster with arch, right? i do have another 256mb RAM chip lying around, but it's useless because the second and only free slot in my laptop melted. :\

MONODA

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Registered: 2008-02-09

Posts: 256

Re: New to Arch: Going to Install on old laptop

Why not try kdemod ?

quarkup

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-09-07

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Re: New to Arch: Going to Install on old laptop

well then it fits for you.

if you want more speed, there is also the 'kdemod' (read the wiki here)

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: New to Arch: Going to Install on old laptop

I have a 700MHz P3, 384MB RAM, pathetic video card laptop that Arch runs great on. Didn't even try KDE 4 (not to say it won't work) but minimal KDEmod 3.5 works fairly fast. I'll be switching to WM-only soon on it.

icanfly0307

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Registered: 2009-01-19

Posts: 16

Re: New to Arch: Going to Install on old laptop

does kdemod have kde 4.2 or is it only kde 3.5? kde 4.2 ran really well on my fedora installation.