NMGLugers, Well, I am back to Peppermint 8 on the 2004 laptop, as the Debian shutdown due to over heating. The Peppermint functions and I managed enough fancontrol and other items to keep it cool enough for short runs. However, sometimes it does not see the keyboard, but a restart or two fixes that. So I may have reached the end of my patience on this old hardware. Maybe something newer, like a 2005 with more ram would work........ More at the meeting. Thank you, Ted P. On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome@gmail.com> wrote:
NMGLugers, I did convert to Debian Stretch on this rather older laptop. It runs well enough and avoided some of the builtin difficulties of the Peppermint OS. But I found an old hdd, so now have installed Peppermint OS 8 again and worked to iron out some of the bugs and settings not to my liking. Browser still an issue with 70-80% of cpu consumed. Elinks, non-gui browser much better and quicker. Oddly, dvd and video play as well as one would expect on older processor. For those interested I will try to remember to bring laptop and both hdd's to the meeting on July 5th. Also a Peppermint OS Live/Install disk to pass along. The developers figured to save hdd space by relying on web applications and ICE-SSB, their use of browser to "select site browse" locking the session to one site with their app. I don't see the logic of that for older processors. It makes this unit crawl and stall. Interesting parallel with educational test sites that lock the browser so you cannot get the answer from Wikipedia. Thank you, Ted P.